Book Reviews

Copper as Canvas. Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper 1575-1775

By Michael K. Komanecky, et al.

[Cat. Exh.] Phoenix, AZ: The Phoenix Art Museum, distributed by Oxford
University Press, Oxford and New York, 1999. 21 + 346 pp, 200 col. illus., 76 b&w illus., 13 drawings, diagrams and maps. ISBN 0-19-512397-2 (paper), 0-19-512396-4 (cloth)

Review published November 2000

This is the catalogue of an imaginatively conceived and well-researched exhibition. Its lengthy and informative essays, by Michael Komanecky, Edgar Peters Bowron, Clara Bargellini, Isabel Horovits, [...] Read More

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Paintings: The Netherlands, XV-XVI Centuries; Flanders XVII-XVIII Centuries; Belgium XIX-XX Centuries

By Xenia Egorova

Flanders XVII-XVIII Centuries; Belgium XIX-XX Centuries. Moscow: Pushkin State Musuem of Fine Arts, 1998. 416 pp, many col. and b&w illus. ISBN 5-89480-010-2. In Russian

Review published November 2000

The collection of Flemish paintings (in Russian the term is as inclusive as the Italian 'fiamminghi' and the French 'flamand') is one of the unheralded strengths of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in [...] Read More

Two Publications on Gerrit van Honthorst

By various authors

Review published November 2000

J. Richard Judson and Rudolf E. O. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656 (Aetas Aurea Monographs on Dutch and Flemish Painting, XIV). Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1999. 405pp, 39 col. plates, 534 [...] Read More

Four Books on Rogier van der Weyden

By various authors

Review published November 2000

Dirk De Vos, Rogier van der Weyden. The Complete Works.Antwerp:Ê Mercatorfonds; New York: Abrams, 1999. 445 pp, 500 illus., 350 in col. ISBN 0-8109-6390-6. Albert Châtelet, Rogier van der Weyden [...] Read More

Leven na de dood. Gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen

By Truus van Bueren

With contributions by W. C. M. Wüstefeld [Cat. Exh., Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 11 December 1999 _ 26 March 2000]. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. 280 pp, 230 illus., many in col. ISBN 2-503-50942-8

Review published November 2000

In 1994, Truus van Bueren started an investigation into 'Care for the here and the hereafter: Commemorative representations in the (arch)bishopric of Utrecht in the late Middle Ages'. The exhibition [...] Read More

Hans Holbein the Younger. A Guide to Research

By Erika Michael

Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1480: Artist Resource Manuals, vol. 2. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997. 749 pp, 1 illus. ISBN 0-8153-0389-0

Review published November 2000

In art historical literature it is deemed desirable to gather, at regular intervals, clearly organised bibliographic lists of what has been written about artists up to that point. That this makes good [...] Read More

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