Book Reviews

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

Rembrandt in America. Collecting and Connoisseurship

By George S. Keyes, Tom R. Rassieur, and Dennis P. Weller, in collaboration with Jon L. Seydl

Cat. exh. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, November 1, 2011 - February 1, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 19 - May 28, 2012; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 24 - September 16, 2012. New York: SkiraRizzoli, 2011. 223 pp, 50 large color plates, over 93 small color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-3685-7

Review published April 2012

A collaboration between the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue make an impressive showing [...] Read More

Pieter Lastman. Studien zu Leben und Werk. Mit einem kritischen Verzeichnis der Werke mit Themen aus der antiken Mythologie und Historie (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 88)

By Christian Tico Seifert

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2011. 368 pp, 74 b&w and 228 color illus. ISBN 978-3-86568-515-5

Review published April 2012

Carel Vosmaer provided a list of 53 paintings by Pieter Lastman (1583-1633) in his book on Rembrandt, first published in 1868 and reprinted in 1877. That list signals the beginning of modern interest [...] Read More

Holländische Gemälde im Städel Museum 1550-1800. Vol. 3: Künstler geboren nach 1630 (Kataloge der Gemälde im Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Max Hollein and Jochen Sander, XI)

By Mirjam Neumeister, Julia Schewski-Bock and Christiane Haeselaer

Petersburg: Michael Imhof Verlag, and Frankfurt am Main: Städel Museum, 2010. 616 pp, 279 b&w illus., 378 color illus. ISBN 978-3-86568-541-4

Review published April 2012

Note to our readers: in general, the HNA Newsletter has not been reviewing museum collection catalogues, but as the previous museum collection catalogues of Frankfurt were already reviewed, we [...] Read More

Palazzo Rubens. The Master as Architect

By Barbara Uppenkamp and Ben van Beneden, with a contribution by Piet Lombaerde

Cat. exh. Antwerp, Rubenshuis, September 10 – December 11, 2011. Antwerp: Rubenshuis, in association with Mercatorfonds, Brussels, 2011. 175 pp, 243 color illus. ISBN 978-90-6153-116-6

Review published April 2012

It has now become part of the standard service for visitors to exhibitions to receive, free of charge, a small guidebook, which is usually available in a number of languages. Such booklets have the [...] Read More

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