Book Reviews

Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt

By Boudewijn Bakker

Trans. Diane Webb. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. Xvii, 348 pp, 28 color pls. ISBN 978-1-4094-0486-6

Review published November 2015

As its title indicates, this book attempts to take a broader view at a much debated topic: the interpretation of landscape representations in northern Europe between ca. 1400 and 1670. Bakker is not [...] Read More

Trading Values in Early Modern Antwerp

By Christine Göttler, Bart Ramakers, and Joanna Woodall, eds.

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 64 (2014), Leiden: Brill, 2014. 399pp, 180 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-27215-6

Review published November 2015

Readers of this review need no introduction to the NKJ, which is still publishing important annual volumes on designated themes. This latest volume punningly plays on the term "values" to designate [...] Read More

Frans Halsen’ aan de muur: omgang met familieportretten in Haarlem

By S.A.C. Dudok van Heel and M.J. Bok

The Hague: Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 2013. Distributed by Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum. 57 pp, with numerous illus. ISBN 978-90-805689-7-6

Review published April 2015

The brief publication under review, richly illustrated in color with drawn and painted portraits, coats of arms and seals, and furnished with family trees and transcripts of archival documents, came [...] Read More

Liechtentein Museum Vienna: The Hohenbuchau Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Golden Age

By Peter C. Sutton

Ed. by Johann Kräftner. Exhibition “Northern Baroque Splendor. The Hohenbuchau Collection from the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, The Princely Collections, Vienna,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, September 20, 2014 – April 12, 2015; Cincinnati Art Museum, June 27 – September 20, 2015, as “Rubens to Ruisdael,” with the same subtitle. Vienna: Liechtenstein Museum and Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2011. 494 pp, profuse illus. ISBN 978-85033-572-0 (English edition)

Review published April 2015

The splendid exhibition now at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (and this summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum), presents sixty-four of the ninety-seven paintings that are published in Peter [...] Read More

Rubens Unveiled, Paintings from Lost Antwerp Churches

By Valérie Herremans

Ghent: Snoeck Publishers; Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2013. 136 pp, 137 color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-6161-134-5

Review published April 2015

The Cathedral of Our Lady and the St. Paul's, St. James’s, St. Andrew’s and St. Charles Borromeo churches are Antwerp's five remaining monumental churches. These great monuments give an idea of the [...] Read More

Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Larry Silver

Farnham (Surrey)/Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate Publishing 2014. xiii, 297 pp, 160 illus., 48 in color. ISBN 978-1-4094-6233-0

Review published April 2015

Questions of artistic collaboration, rivalry, and dialogue find rich and ample material within Rubens’s career, oeuvre, and afterlife, as the abundance of recent scholarship demonstrates (e.g. Anne T. [...] Read More

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