Book Reviews

Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam; Gender, Childhood and the City

By Angela Vanhaelen

Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. XII, 219 pp, 42 b&w illus. ISBN 0-75460-844-1

Review published November 2004

Catchpenny prints rank among the most fascinating ephemera produced in the Dutch Republic. Yet aside from a series of what are essentially coffee-table books penned by Maurits de Meyer decades ago, an [...] Read More

Love Letters. Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer

By Peter C. Sutton, Lisa Vergara, and Ann Jensen Adams, with Jennifer Kilian and Marjorie E. Wieseman

[Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, January 31 - May 2, 2004; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October 1 - December 31, 2003.] Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2003. 208 pp, 76 color plates, 94 b&w illus. ISBN 0-9720736-6-3

Review published November 2004

A decade ago, few connoisseurs of old master painting would have listed the Bruce Museum, in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut, among major exhibition venues. Peter Sutton, who joined the Bruce as [...] Read More

Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age

By Christopher Lloyd

[Cat. exh. Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, May 14 - November 7, 2004.] Royal Collection Enterprises, 2004. ISBN 1-902163 -90-7

Review published November 2004

Visitors to Edinburgh in the summer of 2004 had the good fortune of finding the crème de la crème of the British Royal Collection's Dutch paintings in the Queen's Gallery at the Palace of [...] Read More

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613/14-1654). Ein flämischer Nachfolger Van Dycks (Pictura Nova, 9)

By Axel Heinrich

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. 640 pp, 180 b&w illus., 1 color plate. ISBN 2-503-51143-0

Review published November 2004

These two handsomely produced volumes publish the work that was begun as a dissertation, submitted in 2000 to the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen and written under the supervision of Karl Arndt. [...] Read More

Pan & Syrinx. Eine erotische Jagd. Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel und ihre Zeitgenossen

By Justus Lange, Christine Van Mulders, Bernhard Schnackenburg, and Joost Vander Auwera

[Cat. exh. Staatliche Museen, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, March 19 - June 13, 2004; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, June 25 - August 22, 2004.] Kassel: Staatliche Museen, 2004. 192 pp, 43 b&w illus. and one foldout; 42 color plates, one color foldout of the Kassel painting. ISBN 3-931787-30-3

Review published November 2004

With this exhibition the Staatliche Museen in Kassel celebrated the repurchase in 2001 of the cabinet piece, Pan and Syrinx of c.1617, painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), who added the figures, [...] Read More

Peter Paul Rubens: The Life of Achilles

By Friso Lammertse and Alejandro Vergara

With contributions by Annetje Boersma, Guy Delmarcel and Fiony Healy. Cat. exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, August 30 - November 16, 2003; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, December 9, 2003 - February 19, 2004. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2003. 151 pp, 25 color plates, 20 color figures, 36 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5662-327-3. Also published in Dutch

Review published November 2004

What prompted Rubens to produce a tapestry series with eight scenes devoted to the life of the Greek hero Achilles? What do we know about Rubens's working method in producing preparatory works for the [...] Read More

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