Over the past two decades and under the leadership of George Goldner, the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints has built up its holdings in areas that were previously [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Books on Pre-Eyckian Painting
Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters and Wim Fremout, eds., Pre-Eyckian Panel Painting in the Low Countries. Vol. I: Catalogue, by Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters, Wim Fremout et al.; Vol. II: Essays, by [...] Read More
Le ‘Ci nous dit’: L’image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siècle : les enluminures du manuscrit de Chantilly
Ci nous dit, originally known as Une composition de la Sainte Ecriture, was written around 1320 by an anonymous author perhaps in the region around Soissons, and survives today in 18 exemplars. The [...] Read More
Pygmalion in Bavaria. The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory
Rococo remains an art historical stepchild, the more so for Bavarian Rococo. Seldom taught even in survey classes, let alone in stand-alone courses, its richly decorated surfaces may fascinate, but [...] Read More
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
This exquisite volume is as enticing as its title implies, exploring much more than the works which were on view in the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The additional paintings provide a [...] Read More
Bartholomeus van der Helst (ca. 1613-1670). Een studie naar zijn leven en werk
When Joshua Reynolds visited Amsterdam he admired a famous group portrait of the city’s Civic Guards: “the first picture ... in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect [...] Read More