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
Book Reviews
The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen: Catalogue Raisonné (Oculi. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries 13)
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
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
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
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
Gonzales Coques (1614-1684). Der kleine Van Dyck (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing XIII)
Gonzales Coques was an Antwerp painter of cabinet-size individual and family group portraits, all viewed slightly from below. As Lisken-Pruss explicitly states, unlike so many of his contemporaries, [...] Read More