Book Reviews

A Journey to Flanders and Holland

By Sir Joshua Reynolds

Ed. by Harry Mount. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. LXIII + 274 pp, 17 col. pls, 80 b&w illus.
ISBN 0-521 45129 9

Review published May 2000

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

By Edward Norgate

Ed. by Jeffrey M. Muller and Jim Murrell. New Haven and London: Yale University Press (published for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art), 1997. XII, 297 pp, 16 illus., 8 in col. ISBN 0-300-06913-8

Review published May 2000

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)

By Jan Briels

Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1997, 429 pp, 467 col. pls, ISBN 90-6153-400-3

Review published May 2000

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

Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700

By Hans Vlieghe

(Yale University Press: Pelican History of Art Series). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 288 pp, 100 col., 300 b&w illus. ISBN 0-300-07038-1

Review published May 2000

This is a cautious, lucid and full overview of the visual arts in seventeenth-century Flanders with a welcome breadth of illustration. An excellent range of colour plates allows the reader to [...] Read More

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