Book Reviews

At Home in the Golden Age. Masterpieces from the SØR Rusche Collection

By Marten Jan Bok et al.

Edited by Jannet de Goede and Martine Gosselink. [Cat. exh. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, February 9 – May 18 , 2008]. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2008. 144 pp, 185 color illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8505-5

Review published April 2011

“Von den Kleinsten, das Beste” (“The best of the smallest”), this self-proclaimed motto of the collecting strategy of Egon Rusche (1934-1996) is a fine characterization of the SØR Rusche Collection as [...] Read More

Tronie und Porträt in der niederlän-dischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts

By Dagmar Hirschfelder

Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2008. 552 pp, 70 b&w illus., 24 tables with 49 color illus. and 111 tables with 323 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7861-2567-9

Review published April 2011

The ‘tronie’ (meaning ‘head’, ‘face’ or ‘facial expression’ in Dutch) entered art historical discourse in the1980s and in recent years has garnered increasing interest. Nevertheless, it remains [...] Read More

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

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