Book Reviews

Light and Shade in Dutch and Flemish Art. A History of Chiaroscuro in Art Theory and Artistic Practice in the Netherlands of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Théorie de l’art 1400–1800/Art Theory 1400–1800, 7)

By Ulrike Kern

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014. 224 pp, 55 b&w, 55 color illus. ISBN: 978-2-503-54944-6

Review published April 2017

Light and shade played such fundamental roles in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish artists’ representation of the natural world that we may take for granted the complexity and ambiguity associated [...] Read More

Dutch Art and Urban Cultures 1200-1700

By Elisabeth de Bièvre

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2015. 492 pp, 100 color, 180 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-20562-6

Review published April 2017

After completing her 1986 doctoral dissertation on the decoration of town halls in the United Provinces, Elisabeth de Bièvre published a series of studies (notably “The Urban Subconscious: The Art of [...] Read More

Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen

By Sir Christopher White

revised ed. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2015. xii, 576 pp, approx. 360 color illus. ISBN 978-1-905-68646-9

Review published April 2017

This past spring (2016), there was much activity surrounding the Dutch pictures belonging to the British Royal Family who hold one of the largest and most significant private art collections in the [...] Read More

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

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