Exh. Cat. The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, November 10, 2023 – April 14, 2024. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2023. 160pp, 105 illus. ISBN 978-909741-87-4.
The spectacular 2021 Holbein portraiture exhibition, organized by Anne Woollett for the J. Paul Getty Museum and shown also at the Morgan Library & Museum (to be reviewed), might seem as if there [...] Read More
SMK Statens Museum for Kunst/ The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, November 9, 2023 – March 3, 2024.
Exh. cat. edited by Hanne Kolind Poulsen and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, Melchior Lorck – Facts, Fiction, Interpretation, Copenhagen, 1923, 152 pp. ISBN 978-87-7551-205-8.
The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at The National Museum of Denmark (SMK) holds what is perhaps the world’s largest collection of works by Melchior Lorck (1526/7 – 1583). The exhibition Melchior [...] Read More
[Cat. exh. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 18, 2023-March 24, 2024]. 89pp, 73 illus. ISBN 978-0-932900-62-3.
Almost a missing link between the most celebrated pioneer engravers of the fifteenth century, Master ES and Martin Schongauer, is a less familiar figure, the Upper Rhenish printmaker Israhel van [...] Read More
Exh. Cat., The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2021. 268 pp. 178 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-9032-650-0.
This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 250 pp, 100 color and b&w illus. ISBN 9781913107345.
Antwerp-born Anthony Van Dyck occupies an important, if complex, place in the history of English painting. Breathtakingly talented in his virtuosic handling, during his time in England Van Dyck was [...] Read More
Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More