Book Reviews

Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community

By Ann Jensen Adams

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 398 pp, 73 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-521-44455-2

Review published April 2011

Already in 1994, Joanna Woodall in her Portraiture Facing the Subjectannounced that Ann Jensen Adams’s forthcoming study of Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture assumes the distinction between public [...] Read More

Two Publications on Rubens

By various authors

Review published April 2011

Rubens (Museo Nacional del Prado. Guías de la Colección), Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2010. 61 pp, 91 color illus. ISBN 978-84-84 802-11-2. Rubens. The Spectacle of Life. In English, Spanish [...] Read More

Room for Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp

By Ariane van Suchtelen and Ben van Beneden

[Cat. exh. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, November 28, 2009 – February 28, 2010; Mauritshuis, The Hague, March 25 – June 27, 2010]. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2009. 143 pp, 101 illus. ISBN 978-90-400-7655-8 (English); 978-90-400-8639-7 (Dutch)

Review published April 2011

Room for Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp / Kamers vol kunst in 17e-eeuws Antwerpen was, to my knowledge, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on gallery paintings, a subject restricted to [...] Read More

Hans von Aachen (1552-1615). Court Artist in Europe

By Thomas Fusenig, et al., eds.

With essays by Eliška Fučíková, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Joachim Jacoby, Karl Schütz, Joseph Leo Koerner, Lubomír Konečný, Bernard Aikema, and Isabella di Lenardo; with additional entries by Alice Taatgen, Christof Metzger, and Michal Šroněk. Translated by Kristin Belkin, Stefan Bartilla, Heinrich Becker, Markéta Ederová, and Jana Kuchtová. [Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 11 - June 13, 2010; Obrazárna Pražského hradu, Prague, July 1 - October 3, 2010; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, October 19, 2010 - January 9, 2011.] Aachen: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum; Berlin/Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010. 278 + 17 pp, 248 color and 15 b&w illus., 2 maps. ISBN 978-3-422-06972-5

Review published April 2011

There are many reasons why the painter Hans von Aachen deserves an international exhibition with catalogue. This artist from Cologne surprised Netherlandish and Italian contemporaries with striking [...] Read More

Apelles am Fürstenhof. Facetten der Hofkunst um 1500 im Alten Reich

By Matthias Müller, Klaus Weschenfelder, Beate Böckem, and Ruth Hansmann, eds.

[Cat. exh. Kunstsamm-lungen der Veste Coburg, August 22 – November 7, 2010.] Berlin: Lucas Verlag, 2010. 316 pp, 193 illus. ISBN 978-3-86732-092-4

Review published April 2011

Dominated by the figure of Albrecht Dürer in his hometown of Nuremberg, German art of the sixteenth century is often discussed through its urban centers. Recently, however, the return to scholarly [...] Read More

Bosch en Bruegel als Bosch. Kunst over kunst bij Pieter Bruegel (c. 1528-1569) en Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450-1516)

By Matthijs Ilsink

Nijmegen: Stichting Nijmeegse Kunsthistorische Studies, 2009. 405 pp, 157 b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-90128-17-3

Review published April 2011

While it has been pointed out on numerous occasions how much Bruegel as a “second Bosch” owes to his celebrated predecessor, this book-length study breaks new interpretive ground about their [...] Read More

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