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Prosper Arents: De Bibliotheek van Pieter Pauwel Rubens: een reconstructie

By Alfons K.L. Thijs, ed.

With contributors by Frans Baudouin, Lia Baudouin, Elly Cockx-Indestege, Jacques De Bie, Marcus de Schepper (De Gulden Passer, 78/79). Antwerp: Vereniging der Antwerpse Bibliofielen, 2001. 387 pp, ISSN 0777-5067

Review published April 2003

In 1675 Joachim von Sandrart wrote of Peter Paul Rubens, whom he had met personally, that his erudition was marked by 'extraordinary genius, wit and understanding.' Art historians have always seen [...] Read More

Rubens. Drawing on Italy

By Jeremy Wood

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 14 - September 1, 2002; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, September 21 - December 8, 2002.] Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 2002. 95 pp, with illus., 20 in color, ISBN 1-903278-31-7

Review published April 2003

The outstanding exhibition, Rubens, Drawing on Italy, shown in Edinburgh and Nottingham, shed considerable light on the highly complex subject of Rubens's reworking and 'improvement' of drawings by [...] Read More

Rubens. Palazzi di Genova. Architectural Drawings and Engravings (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII, 1)

By Herbert W. Rott

2 vols. London: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2002, 588 pp, 372 b&w illus. ISBN 1-872501-33-8

Review published April 2003

The recently published volume (in 2 parts) of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens, is most exceptional, in that it has so little to do with [...] Read More

Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680

By Karl Schütz, Ute Kleinmann, Konrad Renger, Alexander Wied, Arnout Balis, Stephan Brakensiek, Uwe Wieczorek, Klaus Ertz and Wolfgang Prohaska

[Cat. exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 18 - July 21, 2002; Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Villa Hügel, Essen, September 1 - December 8, 2002.] Lingen: Luca Verlag, 2002. 402 pp, ISBN 3-932641-49-4

Review published April 2003

My first impression of the exhibition, which I saw in Essen, was that it was unusually large and impressive for a thematically-focused show (126 works). It comprised eleven sections correspond ing to [...] Read More

Die Architectura von Hans Vredeman de Vries. Entwicklung der Renaissancearchitektur in Mitteleuropa (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 99)

By Petra Sophia Zimmermann

Munich/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002. 262 pp, 90 illus., 44 pls. ISBN 3-422-06370-6

Review published April 2003

The author presented her study of Hans Vredeman de Vries's 1577 treatise ARCHITECTURA Oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruvius, as a habilitation thesis in Braunschweig in 2000. Part One, which [...] Read More

Goltzius & the Third Dimension

By Stephen H. Goddard and James A. Ganz

[Cat. exh. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, October 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 19 - March 16, 2002; Spencer Museum of Art, The University ot Kansas, Lawrence, March 30 - May 19, 2002]. Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2001. 78 pp, 34 color illus., 46 b&w illus. ISBN 0-931102-43-X

Review published April 2003

This attractive booklet comprises a pair of essays by Stephen Goddard and James Ganz that address remarkable correspondences between the prints of Hendrick Goltzius and the bronzes of the Dutch [...] Read More

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