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Pride and Solace: Medieval Books of Hours and Their Readers

By Evelien Hauwaerts (curator)

Bruges, Groeningemuseum, April 4 – October 7, 2025.

Exh. cat. ed. by Evelien Hauwaerts with Emma De Nil and Caroline Van Cauwenberge, English edition: Books of Hours, Books of Hope: Medieval Books of Hours and their Readers, Antwerp: Hannibal Books, 2025, 160 pp. ISBN 978-9464941951; Dutch edition: Trots en Troost: Middeleuuwse getijdenboeken en hun lezers. ISBN 9464941952.

Review published March 2026

For manuscript enthusiasts, 2025 was dominated by the blockbuster exhibition displaying the calendar of the Très Riches Heures (and many related items) at the castle of Chantilly, just outside Paris. [...] Read More

The Burgeoning European Print Trade. The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp.

By Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof

London: Harvey Miller, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2025. 404 pp, 170 color illus., 8 tables. ISBN 978-1-915487-07-0.

Review published March 2026

After long domination of early Netherlandish art by the study of paintings, recent decades have inspired interest in another major innovation of the era, the medium of prints. Around midcentury in [...] Read More

Opacity. Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic

By Angela Vanhaelen

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. 192 pp, 11 color, 39 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-271-09996-5.

Review published January 2026

In the Netherlands, the prosperous economic and cultural heights of the seventeenth century used to be called the “Golden Century” (Gouden Eeuw). But as if a veil has been lifted, recent revisionist [...] Read More

Vermeer’s Love Letters

By Robert Fucci (curator)

New York, The Frick Collection, June 18 – August 31, 2025.
Exh. cat. by Robert Fucci. New York, Rizzoli Electa in association with The Frick Collection, 2025. 96 pp, 60 color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-4594-1.

Review published December 2025

Published in conjunction with the special focus exhibition marking the long-awaited reopening of the Frick Collection, Robert Fucci’s Vermeer’s Love Letters reflects the aims of the show it [...] Read More

Michaelina Wautier, Malerin

By Gerlinde Gruber (curator)

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, September 30, 2025 – February 22, 2026; London, Royal Academy of Arts, March 27, 2026 – June 21, 2026.

Exh. cat. by Gerline Gruber, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, and Julien Domercq. Stuttgart, Belser, 2025. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1915815200.

Review published December 2025

Michaelina Wautier, Malerin presented some true delights for the specialist visitor familiar with the oeuvre of an artist little known before the groundbreaking Antwerp exhibition of her work in 2018. [...] Read More