This exemplary publication is the latest in a series of collection/exhibition catalogues devoted to Dutch and Flemish paintings in French provincial museums, which have been produced by the Fondation [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Publications on the Collection of Henry H. Weldon
In the Eye of the Beholder: Northern Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon. Forward by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann; catalogue by Nancy T. Minty [Exh. Cat.]. New Orleans: New Orleans [...] Read More
Fürtrefflicher Gemähld- und Bilder-Schatz. Die Gemäldesammmlung des Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Pommersfelden
Count Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), Prince bishop of Bamberg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and as such Chancellor of the Reich, was the second most powerful man after the German Emperor. [...] Read More
A Journey to Flanders and Holland
Anyone familiar with Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses knows his opinion that Flemish and Dutch paintings were inferior to Italian. While he admired the skillful descriptiveness and precise brushwork [...] Read More
Miniatura or the Art of Limning
Edward Norgate was a gentleman employed in the service of the early Stuart kings. Emerging from an academic background (his father was vice-chancellor of Cambridge), he evinced strong artistic [...] Read More
Vlaamse schilders en de dageraad van Hollands Gouden Eeuw (1585-1630)
Strangely, the pictorial linkages between Flanders and Holland in the seventeenth century remain one of the mysterious, grey areas in the history of art, exemplifying the Netherlandish proverb of [...] Read More