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
Book Reviews
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
Two Publications on Gerrit van Honthorst
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
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
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