Albert Châtelet’s handsome, slip-cased treatment of one of the richest eras of French manuscript painting, the several decades around 1400 that included the Très riches Heures, is divided neatly into [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Jacob Jordaens: Design for Tapestries (Pictura Nova, Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, V)
Considering that Jacob Jordaens was the most prolific designer for tapestry in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth century, it is remarkable that up until now we have had to rely on Max [...] Read More
Johann Liss. A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné
The first words in this major new monograph devoted to Johann Liss state the problem: he is, "a painter about whose life almost nothing is known. No documents exist pertaining to his birth and [...] Read More
Bellisimi ingegni, grandissimo splendore. Studies over de religieuze architectuur in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden tijdens de 17de eeuw
In her introduction to this novel and valuable anthology, Krista De Jonge, Professor of Architectural History at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, notes that the decade between Carolus Scribanius's [...] Read More
Copper as Canvas. Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper 1575-1775
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
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