Book Reviews

Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

By Susan Donahue Kuretsky

With contributions by Walter S. Gibson, Catherine Levesque, Erik P. Löffler, Lynn Federle Orr, and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. [Cat. exh. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 8 – June 19, 2005; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, August 20 – October 30, 2005; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, January 10 – March 16, 2006.] Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2005; distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle. 299 pp, 161 b&w illus., 81 color plates. ISBN 0-964426-37-4

Review published November 2005

Scholarship on seventeenth-century Dutch art has tended to be conservative, for the most part sticking to the well-trodden paths of archival research, iconography, and Stilgeschichte. On the rare [...] Read More

Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution

By Wayne Franits

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 328 pp, 247 illus. ISBN 0-3001-0237-2

Review published November 2005

Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution represents a publishing event: a new survey devoted solely to the eponymous phenomenon, “from its first manifestations in [...] Read More

The Learned Eye. Regarding Art, Theory, and the Artist’s Reputation. Essays for Ernst van de Wetering

By Marieke van den Doel, Natasja van Eck, Gerbrand Korevaar, Anna Tummers and Thijs Weststeijn (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. 228 pp., 50 color, 36 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5356-713-5

Review published November 2005

The Learned Eye takes its name from a passage in Franciscus Junius's treatise on painting (1641) in which he argues for informed viewing as the essential skill on which critical aesthetic judgments [...] Read More

Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader

By Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger (eds.)

London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2004. 296 pp, 96 color plates, 40 b&w illus. ISBN I903470358. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle

Review published November 2005

As a discerning collector, generous benefactor, and perceptive scholar, Alfred Bader has made a lasting and significant contribution to the study of Netherlandish art. His autobiography Adventures of [...] Read More

Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings

By Susan J. Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar, Horst Vey

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 692 pp, ca. 800 illus. (b&w with numerous color). ISBN 0-300-09928-2

Review published November 2005

Those wishing to survey the variety and breadth of the oeuvre of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) or provide a handy reference in a footnote have hitherto reached for Gustav Glück, Van Dyck, des Meisters [...] Read More

Peter Paul Rubens, The Drawings

By Anne-Marie Logan, in collaboration with Michiel C. Plomp

[Cat. exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 15 – April 3, 2005.] New York: The Metropolitian Museum of Art; New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2005. 332 pp. ISBN 1-58839-139-6 (hardcover: Met. Mus.); 1-58839-141-8 (paperback: Met. Mus.); 0-300-10494-4 (Yale)

Review published November 2005

For those too young to have seen the great round of Rubens exhibitions staged in the 400th anniversary year of 1977, the remarkable 2004-05 exhibition, shown in Vienna and New York, was the first [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Book Reviews