Book Reviews

Sehen und Erkennen. Albrecht Altdorfers religiöse Bilder

By Magdalena Bushart

Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2004. 365pp. 32 color, 207 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-064559

Review published November 2005

Truth in packaging. This book, based on the author’s 2001Habilitationschrift, delivers what its title promises. Beginning with a sketch of Altdorfer historiography as well as period religion, it [...] Read More

Jan Joest: Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des Reinlandes um 1500 (Schriften der Heresbach-Stiftung Kalkar, 11)

By Lioba Schollmeyer

Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2004. 440 pp, 33 color plates, 151 b&w illus. ISBN 3-89534-501-6

Review published November 2005

Growing out of her dissertation, completed in 2000 for the Technische Universität, Berlin, Schollmeyer’s book is a substantial addition to the literature on Lower Rhenish painting. Jan Joest is at [...] Read More

Krone und Schleier: Kunst in mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern

By Ed. Jeffrey Hamburger, Robert Suckale, et al.

[Cat. exh. Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen: Die frühen Klöster und Stifte 500-1200 / Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn: Die Zeit der Orden 1200-1500.] Essen/Bonn 2005. 583 pp, 780 illus, most in color. ISBN 3-7774-2565-6

Review published November 2005

This vast and visually rich two-part exhibition necessitated multiple visits. The early material (made before 1200) was displayed in the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen, where the exhibition borrowed the cool [...] Read More

Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

By Nanette Salomon

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 163 pp, 98 illus. ISBN 0-8047-4476-9 (cloth) and 0-8047-4477-7 (paperback)

Review published April 2005

The burgeoning scholarly literature on seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting has seen vigorous growth since the 1980s. Three issues repeatedly inform the discussion of Dutch scenes of daily life: [...] Read More

Matters of Taste. Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life

By Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose

With essays by Charles T. Gehring and Nancy T. Minty, and supplementary cookbook by Peter G. Rose. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History & Art; Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8156-0747-4

Review published April 2005

This catalogue was published for the exhibition that celebrated the 350th anniversary (1652-2002) of the founding of Beverwijck, the original Dutch settlement that became present-day Albany, New York. [...] Read More

Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens

By Peter C. Sutton, Marjorie E. Wieseman

With a contribution by Nico van Hout. [Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 2, 2004 - January 30, 2005; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, March 2 - May 15, 2005; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11 - September 11, 2005] New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. 272 pp, 43 col. and numerous b&w illus. ISBN 0-300-10626-2

Review published April 2005

There dawned one realisation during the symposium at the Bruce Museum, held towards the end of its Rubens oil sketches show (January 22, 2005), as the great blizzard swept north from New York, and the [...] Read More

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