[Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, November 20, 2012 – March 3, 2013.] Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado 2012. 415 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-84-8480-255-6
More than thirty years after the pioneering exhibition in Ottawa curated by Ian MacNairn (1980), the Museo del Prado organised a comprehensive exploration of Anthony van Dyck's early years. The [...] Read More
Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften (VDG) 2010. 238 pp, 8 color, 68 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-89739-680-7
In this book (a doctoral thesis, University of Kassel, 2008), the author investigates the competition among artists working in Antwerp between 1608, the year Rubens returned from Italy, and 1620. [...] Read More
Cat. exh. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, October 14, 2012 – January 21, 2013; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, February 16 – June 9, 2013. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012. 144 pp, 54 illus., most color, 80 thumbnails. ISBN 978-0-911886-78-8
Scholarship remains cumulative. The bracing ripple effects of resuming the project on The Image of the Black in Western Art are still being felt. First some of the main contributors to the crucial [...] Read More
Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 130 pp, 62 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54596-7
Extending the insights in his own new book, Antwerp after Iconoclasm(Yale/ Mercatorfonds, 2012; reviewed separately), Koen Jonckheere has also co-edited a complementary anthology of essays on the same [...] Read More
Brussels: Mercatorfonds and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 311 pp. 242 illus., most in color. ISBN978-0-300-18869-1
Like any history, Netherlandish art has its awkward in-between stages. In the early modern instance, this neglected period is defined by the generation between the death of Bruegel and before the [...] Read More
Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2011. 320 pp, 161 col. and 44 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-5972-524-9
This beautifully produced volume presents all the cartoons, now newly restored, associated with the monumental glazing program of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda, one of the most important series of [...] Read More