Book Reviews

Adriaen van de Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape

By Bart Cornelis and Marijn Schapelhouman

[Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, June 24 – September 25, 2016; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, October 12, 2016 – 15 January 15, 2017.] London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016. 228 pp, 211 color and 33 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-907372-96-4.

Review published December 2017

Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672) has long been admired by art historians for his delicate landscapes with their sensitive lighting and exquisite staffage, but the Dutch artist is not known with a [...] Read More

De l’expertise artistique à la vulgarisation au siècle des Lumières: Jean-Baptiste Descamps (1715-1791) et la peinture flamande, hollandaise et allemande

By Gaëtane Maës

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016, 608 pp, 89 b&w, 20 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-56770-9.

Review published December 2017

Jean-Baptiste Descamps was born in 1715 in Dunkirk, formerly a Flemish city which in 1662 had become annexed by France. He sought a profession as a painter and clearly wanted to orient himself towards [...] Read More

Niklaus Manuel. Catalogue raisonné

By Michael Egli and Hans Christoph von Tavel, with essays by Petra Barton Sigrist

Zurich, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft and Bern, Burgerbibliothek. Basel: Verlag Schwabe, 2017. 2 vols., 916 pp. ISBN 978-3796536304.

Review published December 2017

While this year marks a half-millennium of the Reformation, that story is limited by its German bias, to the neglect of the movement in Switzerland, which climaxed in Bern and Basel in 1529. One of [...] Read More

Albrecht Dürer & the Epistolary Mode of Address

By Shira Brisman

Chicago/London: Chicago University Press, 2016, 223 pp, numerous b&w and col. illus. ISBN 978–0–226–35475–0.

Review published October 2017

This intriguing and ambitious book seeks to make a major contribution to the field by proposing the existence and importance of an “epistolary mode of artistic address,” which Dürer “played a large [...] Read More

Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678)

By Christi M. Klinkert and Yvonne Bleyerveld, eds.

Cat. exh. Stedlijk Museum, Alkmaar, September 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017. Zwolle: Waanders, 2016. 208 pp, 150 colored illus. ISBN 978-94-6262-108-4.

Review published October 2017

Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More

Rubens. Portraits After Existing Prototypes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 4)

By Koenraad Jonckheere

London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2016. 340 pp, 217 colored and b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-58-0.

Review published October 2017

Koenraad Jonckheere’s recent addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Portraits After Existing Prototypes, makes an important contribution to the understanding of a neglected but fascinating [...] Read More

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