Book Reviews

“Nach dem Leben und aus der Phantasie”. Niederländische Zeichnungen vom 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert aus dem Städelschen Kunstinstitut

By Annette Strech with Jutta Schütt, Martin Sonnabend, and Margaret Stuffmann

[Cat. exh. Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt, February 24 – May 14, 2000]. Frankfurt: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 2000

Review published November 2001

Frankfurt’s Städel has a distinguished history, and it is sensibly offering its own treasures to the public in a series of exhibitions of the permanent collection, including remarkable holdings in [...] Read More

Old Master Prints and Drawings, a Guide to Preservation and Conservation

By Carlo James, ed.

Transl. by Marjorie Cohn. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997; distributed by the University of Michigan Press. Revised and translated edition of Manuale per la conservazione e il restauro di desegni e stampi antichi (Florence: Leo S. Olshki, 1991). XV + 319 pp, 54 col. plates, 122 figures, 60 diagrams, ISBN 90-5356-243-5

Review published November 2001

This beautifully produced book is packed with information that will be of great interest and utility to anyone involved with old prints and drawings. Far from being a narrowly prescriptive manual, the [...] Read More

Of Counselors and Kings: The Three Versions of Pierre Salmon’s ‘Dialogues’

By Anne D. Hedeman

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 60 pp, 3 col. plates, ISBN 0-252-02614-4

Review published November 2001

The subject of Anne D. Hedeman’s excellent book is a small group of fifteenth-century manuscripts, rich and idiosyncratic in both conception and execution, of the Dialogues written by Pierre Salmon to [...] Read More

Vermeer and the Delft School

By Walter Liedtke et al

[Cat. exh. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 8, 200 – May 27, 2001; The National Gallery, London, June 20 – September 16, 2001]. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 640 pp, 526 illus., incl. 225 col. plates, ISBN 0-87099-974-5

Review published November 2001

The exhibition catalogue Vermeer and the Delft School, written by an international team of scholars led by Walter Liedtke, makes a noteworthy contribution to the scholarly literature on the art of [...] Read More

Rembrandt’s Treasures

By Bob van den Boogert (ed.), with contributions by Ben Broos, Roelof van Gelder and Jaap van der Veen

[Cat. exh.] Amsterdam: The Rembrandt House Museum; Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1999. 159 pp, many color and b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9381-4

Review published November 2001

I thoroughly enjoyed this exhibition, and found its accompanying catalogue a beautifully produced guide to the material. In concept and realization, the show was a true success; those who missed it [...] 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. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, September 21, 2000 – January 7, 2001]. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Zwolle: Wanders Publishers, 2000. 144 pp, col. plates and b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9468-3

Review published November 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

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