Book Reviews

The Art of Clara Peeters

By Alejandro Vergara, ed.

With essays by Alejandro Vergara and Anne Lenders. Cat. exh. Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp, June 16 – October 2, 2016; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, October 25, 2016 – February 19, 2017. Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten; Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016. 136 pp, fully illus. in color. ISBN 978-84-8480-324-9

Review published April 2017

The Art of Clara Peeters was an especially welcome exhibition shown at the Rockoxhuis in Antwerp and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid not only because of the attraction generally held by [...] Read More

Das Paradies auf Erden. Flämische Landschaften von Bruegel bis Rubens

By Uta Neidhardt and Konstanze Krüger, eds.

Cat. exh. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, October 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017. Translations from Dutch by Susanne Henriette Karau and Rolf Erdorf. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2016. 368 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-95498-252-3

Review published April 2017

The Gemäldegalerie in Dresden has a rich collection of Flemish landscape paintings of the highest quality. Of the approximately 150 works from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, roughly [...] Read More

The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels. Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) (Studies in European Urban History [1100-1800], 37)

By Emily S. Thelen, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. xii, 168 pp, 25 b&w illus., 4 tables. ISBN 978-2-503-55333-7

Review published April 2017

The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels: Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) makes a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on early modern confraternities. [...] Read More

Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution. Flanders, vol. 3: The Provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklist Series, vol. 3)

By C.J. Berserik and J.M.C. Caen

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 562 pp, numerous color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-79528-24-0

Review published April 2017

This weighty publication completes the third installment of C.J. Berserik’s and J.M.A. Caen’s monumental checklist of Netherlandish painted-glass roundels preserved in Belgian public and private [...] Read More

Art as History, History as Art: Jheronimus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Assembling Knowledge, not Setting Puzzles (Nijmegen Art Historical Studies, XXI)

By Stephen Graham Hitchins

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. xx, 420pp, 100 b&w, 170 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55455-6

Review published April 2017

How should one write about historical objects in an era of rising right-wing extremism, populist nationalism, and various flavors of separatism? At a time when disparities of wealth have taken on [...] Read More

Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)

By Dan Ewing

Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. vi, 385 pp, 62 b&w, 203 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55531-7

Review published April 2017

This handsome, well-illustrated book represents a culmination of Dan Ewing’s work on Jan de Beer and will take its place as the standard monograph on this artist for some time to come. For the most [...] Read More

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