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Brueghel Enterprises

By Peter van den Brink (ed.), with contributions by Dominique Allart, Peter van den Brink, Christina Currie, Rebecca Duckwitz, Pascale Fraiture and Suzanne Harleman

[Cat. exh. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, October 13, 2001 - February 17, 2002; Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, March 22 - June 23, 2002]. Amsterdam/Ghent: Ludion, 2001, 191 pp, illus., many in col. ISBN 90 55443891

Review published November 2002

Although there is no shortage of bibliography on the artist, public opinion has not been kind to Pieter Brueghel the Younger. From the time that Carel van Mander dismissed him in a sentence or two [...] Read More

Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la principauté de Liège au quinzième siècle, 19: Musée du Louvre Paris III

By Philippe Lorentz and Micheline Comblen-Sonkes

With the collaboration of the Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique et du Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des musées de France. 2 vols. Brussels: Centre International d'Études de la Peinture Médievale des Bassins de L'Escaut et de la Meuse, 2001. 372 pp, 16 color and 224 b&w plates, ISBN 2-87033-010-3 (Belgium), ISBN 2-7118-4320-3 (France)

Review published November 2002

One of the most ambitious and time consuming projects in the field of Early Netherlandish paintings is the publication of a volume of the 'Primitifs flamands Corpus,' which aims to present and [...] Read More

The Age of Van Eyck 1430-1530. The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting

By Till-Holger Borchert, ed.

Ghent-Amsterdam: Ludion, 2002. 280 pp, 252 illus., most in color, and 131 small catalogue illus., all in color. ISBN 90-5544-396-4. Distributed by Thames & Hudson

Review published November 2002

The exhibition 'Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and the European South, 1430-1530,' held at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges from March 15 until June 2002, celebrated 'Bruges 2002 - Cultural [...] Read More

‘De Fin or et d’azur’: Les commanditaires de livres et le métier de l’enluminure à Tournai à la fin du Moyen Âge (XIVe-XVe siècles), (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 10: Low Countries Series, 7)

By Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

Louvain: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2001. LXVIII, 466 pp, 127 plates, ISBN 2-87723-506-8; 90-429-0883-1

Review published November 2002

Poor Tournai! A decade ago Albert Châtelet demonstrated that Van der Weyden's Seven Sacraments Altar, long regarded as one of the city's most important fifteenth-century works, had actually been [...] Read More

Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht Work: Paintings and Drawings by the 17th-century Master of Perspective

By Liesbeth M. Helmus (ed.)

[Exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, November 4, 2000 – February 4, 2001]. Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 2000. 304 pp, 67 col. illus., many b&w col. comparative illus. ISBN 90-73285-75-5

Review published May 2002

This marvelous exhibition, and its handsome and informative catalogue, have succeeded in bringing alive a fascinating period in Pieter Saenredam’s life, his twenty-week sojourn in Utrecht from [...] Read More

In helder licht. Abraham en Jacob van Strij. Hollandse meesters van landschap en interieur omstreeks 1800

By Charles Dumas, ed., et al.

[Cat. exh., Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, and Rijksmuseum, Twenthe]. Zwolle: Waanders 2000. ISBN 90-400-9445-4

Review published May 2002

The seventeenth century will always be, for most of us, the "Golden Age" of Dutch art. At its close, economic stagnation and the increasing cultural hegemony of France sent the vibrantly original [...] Read More

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