Book Reviews

Questions of Meaning; Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting

By Eddy de Jongh

Translated and edited by Michael Hoyle. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2000. 296 pp, 258 b&w illus. ISBN 90-74310-64-8 (paper), 90-74310-67-2 (hardcover)

Review published November 2001

Eddy de Jongh’s long-awaited Questions of Meaning; Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting (originally published in Dutch in 1995) presents for the first time in English a collection of [...] Read More

Zeichnungen von Meisterhand. Die Sammlung Uffenbach aus der Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen

By Gerd Unverfehrt (ed.)

[Cat. Exh. Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz; Kunstsammlung der Universität, Göttingen; Landesmuseum, Oldenburg]. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. 275 pp; all 100 catalogue entries in colour with b&w comparative illustrations. ISBN 3-525-47000-2 and 3-525-47002-9 (exhibition edition)

Review published April 2001

In 1763 the Frankfurt patrician Johann Friedrich Arman Uffenbach bequeathed his collection of books, instruments, about ten thousand prints, including an impressive Rembrandt collection, and one [...] Read More

Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and Ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631

By Alan Chong (ed.), with essays by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Mariët Westermann, Christopher White and Alan Chong.

[Cat. Exh.] Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Zwolle: Wanders Publishers, 2000. 144 pp, col. plates and b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9468-3

Review published April 2001

One approach to the complexities of Rembrandt and his art is to divide the artist’s periods, works, themes, and associations, so that the small doses of the artist or oeuvre allow in-depth examination [...] Read More

Oder wohl-erlaubte Gemählde Und Bilder-Lust. Die Gemäldesammlung des Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Schloss Gaibach/Unterfranken. Der Gemäldekatalog von Jan Joost van Cossiau aus dem Jahre 1721

By Jan Joost van Cossiau, Delitiae Imaginum

Edited and published by Katharina Bott. Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2000, 163 pp, 213 b&w illus. ISBN 3-89739-128-7. Also available in CD-ROM

Review published April 2001

Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), Prince bishop of Bamberg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and as such Chancellor of the Reich, was the second most powerful man after the German Emperor and [...] Read More

Gärten und Höfe der Rubenszeit im Spiegel der Malerfamilie Brueghel und der Künstler um Peter Paul Rubens

By Ursula Härting (ed.)

[Cat. Exh., Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, October 15, 2000 – January 14, 2001; Landesmuseum, Mainz, March 4 – June 24, 2001]. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2000. 467pp, generously illustrated, ISBN 3-7774-8890-9

Review published April 2001

The transitory nature of gardens certainly does not make them the most obvious subject for a museum exhibition, and indeed many would be hard put to envisage such an undertaking. Those who visit the [...] Read More

Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)

By Claudia Banz

(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 2000. 220 pp, 51 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7861-2309-8

Review published April 2001

Claudia Banz, Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), [...] Read More

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