Prague: Institute of Art History 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 978-80-86890-42-5
The major 2010-11 exhibition, Hans von Aachen (1552-1615): A Court Artist in Europe generated widespread interest at its three venues (Aachen-Prague-Vienna) and occasioned an international conference [...] Read More
[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
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
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
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
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 2013. xx, 388 pp, 114 b&w and 15 color illus. ISBN 978-90-272-4965-4
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
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
London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2012. 200 pp, 95 color illus. ISBN 978-1-907372-41-4
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