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The Bruegel Phenomenon. Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger with a Special Focus on Technique and Copying Practice (Scientia Artis, 8)

By Christina Currie and Dominique Allart

Brussels: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 2012. 3 vols, fully illus. ISBN 978-2-930054-14-8

Review published November 2012

Bruegel is our superstar of the secular. Every year, legions of fans flock to Vienna to experience Bruegel’s depictions of glorious vulgarity, the common man celebrated with uncommon virtuosity and [...] Read More

The Early Dürer

By Daniel Hess and Thomas Eser, eds.

Cat. exh. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24 – September 2, 2012. Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums; London/NewYork: Thames and Hudson, 2012. 604 pp, 380+ illus., most in color. ISBN 978-0-50097-037-9

Review published November 2012

After four decades of professional study, I realize that exhibitions are cyclical, coming around every generation, whether for artists at the Museum of Modern Art (Pollock, Bonnard) or leading old [...] Read More

Geteiltes Leid: Die Passion Christi in Bildern und Texten der Konfessionalisierung

By Birgit Ulrike Münch

Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2009. 487 pp, 263 illus. ISBN 978-3-7954-2174-8

Review published November 2012

Geteiltes Leid brings together a number of fields normally discrete from one another: the Passion, word and image, confessionalization. With growing interest in the body, psychological formation, and [...] Read More

Hieronymus Bosch. Die Zeichnungen. Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts

By Fritz Koreny

Catalogue raisonné. Assisted by Gabriele Bartz and Erwin Pokorny. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 456pp, 451 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54208-9

Review published November 2012

Over the last decade a new consensus has been emerging about Hieronymus Bosch, usually regarded as an eccentric and a unique, if influential genius. First the 2001 Rotterdam exhibition and its [...] Read More

The Land of Unlikeness: Hieronymus Bosch,The Garden of Earthly Delights

By Reindert Falkenburg

Zwolle: WBooks, 2011. 320 pp, 241 color illus, color foldout. ISBN 978-90-400-7767-8

Review published November 2012

Panofsky's Early Netherlandish Painting concludes with his assessment of the difficulties of "decoding Jerome Bosch," stating, "We have bored a few holes through the door of the locked room; but [...] Read More

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

By Lloyd DeWitt, ed.

With a preface by Seymour Slive and contributions by Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, Franziska Gottwald, George S. Keyes, Shelley Perlove, Larry Silver, Ken Sutherland and Mark Tucker. Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris, April 21 - July 18, 2011; Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 3 - October 30, 2011; Detroit Institute of Arts, November 20, 2011 - February 12, 2012. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011. 271 pp, 213 color and 17 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-87633-227-6

Review published April 2012

This exhibition centers on the production by Rembrandt and his workshop of a group of small paintings representing the head of Christ. The likely dates are bounded by an apparent relationship to the [...] Read More

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