Book Reviews

Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings 1475-1540

By Gregory Jecmen and Freyda Spira

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 30 – December 31, 2012; Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, October 5, 2013 – January 5, 2014; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, September 19 – December 14, 2014.] Washington DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Ashgate/Lund Humphries Publishing Company 2012. 120 pp, with color illus. ISBN 978-1-84822-122-2

Review published November 2013

During the Renaissance, the imperial city of Augsburg in southern Germany became an important artistic center. Its financial prosperity in banking and trade – as seen in the enormous wealth of the [...] Read More

German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600

By Maryan W. Ainsworth and Joshua P. Waterman

With contributions by Timothy B. Husband and Karen E. Thomas, with Dorothy Mahon, Charlotte Hale, George Bisacca, Silvia A. Centeno and Peter Klein. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2013. 376 pp, 300 color, 40 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14897-8

Review published November 2013

Hard on the heels of a major catalogue of German drawings at New York's Metropolitan Museum, compiled by Stijn Alsteens and Freyda Spira (reviewed in this journal April 2013), comes a new catalogue of [...] Read More

The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen: Catalogue Raisonné (Oculi. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries 13)

By Wayne Franits

Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 2013. xx, 388 pp, 114 b&w and 15 color illus. ISBN 978-90-272-4965-4

Review published November 2013

Nearly fifty years have passed since the publication of Leonard Slatkes’s pioneering monograph on the paintings of Dirck van Baburen. That interval is surely long enough to merit a new critical [...] Read More

Two Publications on Frans Hals

By various authors

Review published November 2013

Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and The Market in Early Modernity(Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press [...] Read More

The Harold Samuel Collection: A Guide to the Dutch and Flemish Pictures at the Mansion House

By Michael Hall with Clare Gifford

London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2012. 200 pp, 95 color illus. ISBN 978-1-907372-41-4

Review published November 2013

On his death in 1987, Harold Samuel, elevated in 1972 to Baron Samuel of Wych Cross, bequeathed the collection he had formed of 84 seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings to the Corporation of [...] Read More

How to Create Beauty. De Lairesse on the Theory and Practice of Making Art

By Lyckle de Vries

Leiden: Primavera Press 2011, 224 pp, 100 b&w illus. With CD-Rom. ISBN 978-90-5997-102-8

Review published November 2013

In this book Lyckle de Vries aims to restore Gerard de Lairesse’s Groot Schilderboek (1707) to its ostensive original function as “a guide for art lovers and critics.”(7) According to De Vries, the [...] Read More

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