Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 250 pp, 50 illus. (18 color, 32 b&w), ISBN 0-226-56736-2
This study is a thoughtful, lively, and wide-ranging discussion of Amsterdam's Jews - as they appear in Rembrandt's art, as they had business dealings with the artist, and as they lived as new [...] Read More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. 246 pp, 54 illus., 25 in color. ISBN 0-300-09817-0
The central thesis of this book is a relatively simple one: that the primary destination of most paintings produced in the Dutch Republic was the home, and that in this environment, men and women [...] Read More
[Cat. exh. Staatliches Museum Schwerin, August 15 - November 30, 2003.] Schwerin: Staatliches Museum, 2003. 176 pp. ISBN 3-86106-083-3
The art collection of Schwerin's Staatliches Museum was largely assembled by the Dukes of Mecklenburg, and in particular by Duke Christian Ludwig II (1683-1756). The merit of the dukes consists in [...] Read More
Leuven: Uitgeverij Davidsfonds, 2002. 192 pp, 2 b&w illus., 144 color plates. ISBN 90-5826-182-4
The pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel is arguably the most significant building commissioned by the archdukes Albrecht and Isabella during their reign as sovereigns of the Spanish [...] Read More
(Burgundica V, ed. by Jean-Marie Cauchies). Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. XIV, 527 pp., 139 illus., XII plates, 8 of which in color. ISBN 2-503-99129-7
Dagmar Eichberger's seminal study on Margaret of Austria, regent of the Low Countries (1507-1530), as a collector, has set a new standard in the study of Netherlandish court art of the Early Modern [...] Read More
[Cat. exh. Stedelijk Museum Vander Kelen-Mertens, Leuven, September 21 - December 8, 2002.] Turnhout: Brepols; Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2002. 342 pp, col. illus. ISBN: 90-582-6209-X (Davidsfonds); 2-503-52211-4 (Brepols)
The history of the illuminated codex, as the exhibition catalogueMedieval Mastery reminds us, more or less coincides with the Middle Ages. The centrality of reading and writing to medieval life and [...] Read More