Book Reviews

Paul Bril: The Drawings. A Study of their Role in Seventeenth-Century European Landscape (Pictura Nova, IV)

By Louisa Wood Ruby

Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. 280 pp, 109 b&w pls, plus 40 b&w comp. illus. ISBN 2-503-50577-5

Review published April 2001

This book is the fourth title to appear in the excellent Pictura Novaseries of studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Flemish painting and drawing, which has already brought us one other work [...] Read More

Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection

By Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck

[Cat. Exh., Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 3, 1999 – January 2, 2000; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, January 29 – March 26, 2000; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, December 16 – February 25, 2001]. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 1999. 144 pp, 42 col. illus., 21 b&w illus. SBN 0-9653805-7-2

Review published April 2001

Sheldon and Leena Peck are among several notable Boston-area collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Inspired by Konrad Oberhuber at the Fogg Art Museum in 1978, they have assembled a sizable [...] Read More

Images of Death. Rubens Copies Holbein

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Carl Depauw, eds.

With contributions by Michael Kwakkelstein, Kristin Lohse Belkin and Volker Manuth [Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Rubens, Holbein and the Dance of Death. On the Acquisition of a Sketchbook, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, April 8 – June 12, 2000]. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon; Antwerp: Rubens-huis, 2000. 140 pp, 47 col. pls, 97 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5349-320-4

Review published April 2001

Credit is due to the Stedelijk Prentenkabinet and the Rubenshuis in Antwerp for, respectively, acquiring and exhibiting 44 pen and wash drawings by the young Rubens after the Images of Death, the [...] Read More

Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection

By Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Taverner Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 488 pp, 76 col. 312 b&w illus. ISBN 0-87099-918-4

Review published April 2001

One of sixteen catalogues of the extensive Lehman collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and Islamic and Asian art, this volume covers the 153 European drawings that were brought together [...] Read More

Made in Flanders. The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good

By Gregory T. Clark

(Ars Nova. Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination). Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. 499 pp, 24 colour plates, 234 b&w figs. and 104 comparative b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-50878-2

Review published April 2001

The Ghent Privileges Master (fl. 1440-60) was first noticed by Friedrich Winkler in connection with the manuscript in Vienna (cod. 2583). Clark assembles an oeuvre for this artist and his successor, [...] Read More

The Hours of Isabel La Católica. The Facsimile Edition

By Gregory T. Clark (commentary)

Madrid: Testimonio Compaña Editorial; Münster: Verlag Biblioteca Rara, 1997. 31 colour plates from the Hours and 36 comparative figures in colour and black and white. ISBN 84-88829-33-7

Review published April 2001

id-fifteenth-century Flemish manuscript illumination needs more focused studies such as this one. Unfortunately it is not available separately from the facsimile, although the illustration is adequate [...] Read More

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