Book Reviews

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

Rubens in London: Art and Diplomacy

By Gregory Martin

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2011, 208 pp, 67 b&w and 22 color illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-04-2

Review published April 2012

This book summarizes for a general audience the findings of Gregory Martin's two-volume The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting House( Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XV, London and Turnhout, [...] Read More

Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. III. Artists Working in Central Italy and France (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2011, 2 vols., I: 456 pp, 7 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 247 pp, 260 b&w ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-79-0/80-6

Review published April 2012

This publication, the latest in the on-going Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard series, represents the third part of Rubens's engagement with Italian art through copies and adaptations. It is devoted [...] Read More

The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective. Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder (c. 1550-1603), Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger (1580/82-1649), Susanna van Steenwyck (dates unknown-active 1639-c. 1660) (Pictura Nova, XII : Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)

By Jeremy Howarth

Turnhout: Brepols 2009. 557 pp, ISBN 978-2-503-51509-0

Review published April 2012

Carel van Mander heaped praise on Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder’s interior views of modern churches: the master was so successful in this genre that hardly anyone could exceed him. The biographer [...] Read More

The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris – Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria

By Susan Maxwell

Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. 234 pp, 75 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-7546-6887-9

Review published April 2012

Art historical publications in English are paying increasing attention to artists active in what is called Germany today. Life and works of the most famous early modern artists in Germany, especially [...] Read More

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