Book Reviews

Art in the Making: Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings

By David Bomford, ed.

With contributions by Rachel Billinge, Lorne Campbell, Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Jo Kirby, Carol Plazzotta, Ashok Roy, and Marika Spring. [Cat. exh. The National Gallery, London, October 30, 2002 - February 16, 2003.] London: The National Gallery, 2002. 192 pp, 305 illus., many in color, ISBN 1-85709-987-7

Review published April 2003

Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings marks the fourth entry in the National Gallery's popular Art in the Making series. A joint project of the National Gallery's Scientific, Conservation, and [...] Read More

The Flemish Primitives, III: The Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Bouts, Gerard David, Colijn de Coter and Goossen van der Weyden Groups, Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

By Cyriel Stroo, Pascale Syfer-d'Olne, Anne Dubois, Roel Slachmuylders, and Nathalie Toussaint

Brussels: Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique; Turnhout: Brepols 2001. 392 pp., 45 color plates, 221 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-51229-1

Review published April 2003

This is the third in a projected series of five catalogues on the Royal Museums' collection of early Netherlandish painting. It follows Cyriel Stroo and Pascale Syfer-d'Olne's volume o n The Master of [...] Read More

De celebratie van de macht: Presentatieminiaturen en aanverwante voorstellingen in handschriften van Filips de Goede (1419-1467) en Karel de Stoute (1467-1477)

By Cyriel Stroo

Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 2002. 388 pp, 143 pp. of plates. ISBN 90-6569-911-2

Review published April 2003

Cyriel Stoo's book, De celebratie van de macht, uses the presentation scenes in Burgundian manuscripts made for Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold as a starting point, leading the reader [...] Read More

Aelbert Cuyp

By Arthur K. Wheelock (ed.), with contributions by Alan Chong, Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, and Arthur K. Wheelock

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington, October 7, 2001 - January 13, 2002; National Gallery, London, February 13 - May 12, 2002; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, June 7 - September 1, 2002]. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2001. 320 pp, 110 col. illus. ISBN 0-89468-286-5 (softcover); ISBN 0-500-51057-1 (hardcover)

Review published November 2002

The pleasure of losing oneself in the golden world of Aelbert Cuyp is enhanced by total immersion. For this reason viewers of the Cuyp exhibition in Washington, London, and Amsterdam owe the [...] Read More

The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer

By Wayne E. Franits (ed.)

Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 241 pp, 36 plates, 1 folded map. ISBN 0-521-65330-4 (hardcover); ISBN 0-521-65331-2 (softcover)

Review published November 2002

This remarkably useful book is part of the rapidly proliferatingCambridge Companion series, which encompasses sub-series in literature, philosophy, music, and beginning last year, history of art. [...] Read More

Allart van Everdingen 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape

By Alice I. Davies, in collaboration with Frederic J. Duparc

Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 2001 (Aetas Aurea, XV). 309 pp, 14 color plates, 235 b&w illus. and 232 comparative illus. ISBN 90-70288-27-3

Review published November 2002

In Allart van Everdingen, 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape, Alice I. Davies has produced another important monograph. She, in collaboration with Frederic J. Duparc, has also [...] Read More

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