Book Reviews

A House of Art: Rubens as Collector

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Fiona Healy

With an introductory essay by Jeffrey M. Muller and catalogue entries by Kristin Lohse Belkin, Fiona Healy and Gregory Martin. [Cat. exh. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, March 6 - June 13, 2004.] Antwerp: Rubenshuis and Rubenianum; Schoten: BAI, 2004. 342 pp. ISBN 90-76704-69-4 (hardcover) 90-76704-70-8 (paperback)

Review published April 2005

The staging of the exhibition 'A House of Art: Rubens as Collector' in 2004 is, without doubt, the most ambitious project ever undertaken at the Rubenshuis - the house-museum of Peter Paul Rubens [...] Read More

Gärten der Musen und Grazien. Mensch und Natur im niederländischen Humanistengarten, 1522-1655 (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 111)

By Christiane M. Lauterbach

Munich/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003. 327 pp, 34 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-06406-0

Review published April 2005

This publication looks at the extent to which humanists in the golden age of Netherlandish humanism were inspired by the art, ideas and culture of the garden. The author knowledgeably analyses the [...] Read More

Portraicts des SS Vertus de la Vierge contemplées par feue S.A.S.M. Isabelle Clere Eugenie Infante d’Espagne

By Jean Terrier

A facsimile edition with critical introduction by Cordula van Wyhe (Glasgow Emblem Studies, 7). Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2002. XL, 167, XII pp. ISBN 0-85261-768-2

Review published April 2005

Cordula van Wyhe has provided an informative and persuasive critical introduction to the facsimile edition of a relatively unknown but important emblem book: Portraicts des SS Vertus de la Vierge [...] Read More

Flämische Malerei des Barock in der Alten Pinakothek

By Konrad Renger with Claudia Denk

Munich and Cologne: Pinakothek-DuMont, 2002. 519 pp. ISBN 3-8321-7255-6

Review published April 2005

Nowadays, writing a museum catalogue has become one of the most challenging art-historical endeavors. It should keep its value for several decades, and offer an in-depth yet succinct treatment of the [...] Read More

Jan Gossaert: Die niederländische Kunst zu Beginn der Neuzeit

By Ariane Mensger

Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2002. 239 pp. ISBN 3-496-01266-8

Review published April 2005

The paintings and drawings Jan Gossaert made for Philip IV of Burgundy and other patrons related to the sixteenth-century Burgundian court reveal the crucial role the artist played in weaving [...] Read More

Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings

By John Oliver Hand

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 230 pp. ISBN 0-300-10578-9

Review published April 2005

In the early sixteenth century Antwerp was a key center for some of the most significant developments in Netherlandish art, particularly the assimilation of Italian Renaissance style, and the [...] Read More

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