Book Reviews

Leben mit Kunst, Wirken durch Kunst. Sammelwesen und Hofkunst unter Margarete von Österreich, Regentin der Niederlande

By Dagmar Eichberger

(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

Review published April 2004

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

Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475

By Adelaide Louise Bennett, et al.

[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)

Review published April 2004

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

Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting: Methodology, Limitations, & Perspectives

By Molly Faries and Ron Spronk (eds.), with contributions by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, E. Melanie Gifford, Susana Halpine, Teri Hensick, Peter Klein, Henry Lie, Suzanne Quilllen Lomax, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Michael R. Schilling

Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums; Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. 213 pp, numerous b&w illus., 30 color plates. ISBN 1-891771-35-3

Review published April 2004

This volume functions as the proceedings of the 1996 Harvard University symposium held in conjunction with the opening of the expanded Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the [...] Read More

Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17-1678)

By Paul Huys Janssen

Translated by Diane L. Webb. Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 2002 (Aetas Aurea, XVII). 216 pp, 21 color plates, 134 b&w illus. ISBN 90-70288-47-8

Review published December 2003

Paul Huys Janssen's substantial new monograph on Caesar van Everdingen is a much-needed expansion of the literature on this important artist. Everdingen has been recognized as a key classical artist [...] Read More

Rethinking Rembrandt

By Alan Chong and Michael Zell, eds.

(Fenway Court, vol. 30. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). Zwolle: Waanders, 2002 , 264 pp, 7 color plates, 99 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9673-2

Review published December 2003

Symposia are snapshots of the state of a field. Rembrandt research offers notable examples, especially the great international anniversary gathering, Rembrandt after Three Hundred Years (Chicago, [...] Read More

Rembrandt’s Reading. The Artist’s Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History

By Amy Golahny

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 283 pp. 8 color plates, 64 b&w illsus. ISBN 90-5356-609-0

Review published December 2003

What did Rembrandt know, and how did he know it? This variant on the classic Water-gate interrogation forms the basic inquiry of this stimulating new essay by Amy Golahny, Professor at Lycoming [...] Read More

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