London: Phaidon, 1998. 351 pp, 214 col. illus., with glossary, brief biographies, time line, map and suggested further reading, ISBN 0-7148-3412-2
Rembrandt yes, Rubens no, would be the verdict of the museum-going public in 2000. But if anything is going to get them to think again it is this book. This is indeed a biography in the old fashioned [...] Read More
[Exh. Cat. Institut Néerlandais, Paris; Musée Fabre, Montpellier]. Paris: Fondation Custodia; Zwolle: Waanders, 1998. 347 pp, ISBN 90-400-9234-6
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
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
Edited and published by Katharina Bott. Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissen-schaften, 1997. 158 pp, 250 illus. ISBN 3-932124-16-2
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
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
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
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
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