London: Harvey Miller, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2020. 348 pp, 6 b&w and 147 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-26-3.
The very cover of this impressive new anthology sends out a contradiction: its images feature details of the Washington Jan van Eyck Annunciation shutter, yet its editors are noted specialists in [...] Read More
Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2019. 4 Volumes. 348 + 348 + 368 + 320 pp; 900+ illustrations. ISBN 978-90-5997-268-1.
This lavishly produced four-volume boxed set accompanied an exhibition in 2019 at the Bredius Museum in The Hague devoted to the collection of Dutch marine paintings assembled by the London collector [...] Read More
London: Harvey Miller. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019. 462 pp, 196 b&w and col. illustrations, 20 text ill. ISBN 978-0-905203-73-7.
This latest volume in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dedicated to Rubens’s genre pictures. It was only in the late eighteenth century that today’s generic term genre gradually was becoming [...] Read More
Brussels: Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) / London: Harvey Miller. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2020. 205 pp, 134 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-24-9.
In September of 2020, the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels opened a state-of-the-art museum to great fanfare. Its purpose is to offer the public the opportunity to enjoy a rotating exhibit of [...] Read More
Exh. Cat. Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (BOZAR), October 10, 2018 – January 13, 2019; Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg (MNHA), February 15 – May 26, 2019. Brussels: BOZAR Books, Mercatorfonds, 2018. 236 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6230-237-2. In Dutch and French.
Despite the high esteem in which he was held by contemporaries in Italy and the Netherlands, the Brussels painter Theodoor van Loon (1581/82–1649) had until recently been largely ignored by modern [...] Read More
Exh. Cat. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, February 1 – March 12, 2020. London – New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020. 490 pp, 350 color illus. ISBN 978-0-500-02345-7.
Many readers will have shared my disappointment at having missed the exhibition Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, which opened at Ghent’s Museum voor Schone Kunsten on February 1st, 2020, and was [...] Read More