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The Low Countries and the New World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations (Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 13)

By ohanna C. Prins, Bettina Brandt, Timothy Stevens and Thomas F. Shannon (eds.)

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. 248 pp, ISBN 0-7618-1945-2

Review published November 2002

The American Association for Netherlandic Studies (AANS, pronounced like the Bostonion version of 'aunts' by those who love it) is to HNA what a lavish rijstafel is to a warm bowl of hutspot. Attend [...] Read More

Art & Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt

By Mariët Westermann, et al

Cat. exh. Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, October 17, 2001 - January 20, 2002 and Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, March 2 - May 26, 2002. Essays by Mariët Westermann, C. Willemijn Fock, Eric Jan Sluijter and H. Perry Chapman. Denver: Denver Art Museum; Newark: The Newark Museum; Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2001. 240 pp, color and b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9587-6

Review published November 2002

The tension between semblance and reality lies at the heart of Mariët Westermann's concerns with this intriguing catalogue for the recent exhibition she guest-curated at the Denver and Newark Art [...] Read More

La Almoneda del siglo. Relaciones art’sticas entre España y Gran Bretaña, 1604-1655

By Jonathan Brown and John Elliott (eds.)

Exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2002. 315 pp, more than 65 color plates, numerous b&w illus. ISBN 84-8480-031-8.

The catalog also appeared in English under the title The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604-1655, New Haven and London (Yale University Press), 2002. ISBN 0-0009-761-1

Review published November 2002

The 'sale of the century' refers to the dispersal of the collection of Charles I of England, one of the most beautiful art collections at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in the [...] Read More

Jörg Breu the Elder. Art, Culture, and Belief in Reformation Augsburg

By Andrew Morrall

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 281 pp, 10 color, 147 b&w illus. ISBN 1-84014-608-7

Review published November 2002

Although a relatively unfamiliar and little studied artist, Jörg Breu was a major figure in the leading economic center of Germany along with Dürer's Nuremberg. Breu presents many fascinating issues, [...] Read More

Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden

By Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig and Barbara Uppenkamp

Ed. by Heiner Borggrefe, Vera Lüpkes, Paul Huvenne, Ben Van Beneden [Cat. exh. Schloss Brake, Lemgo, May 26 - August 25, 2002; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, September 15 Ð December 8, 2002]. Munich: Hirmer, 2002. 397 pp, 500 illus. ISBN 3-7774-9470-4

Review published November 2002

In today's world Hans Vredeman de Vries (Leeuwarden 1526 - Hamburg 1609) would probably be much in demand as an 'in-designer', but in his own day he enjoyed a more diverse reputation: as painter, [...] Read More