This volume is the first in the series Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation, and it is based on papers from the first Lovis Corinth Colloquium, held at Emory University in April 2003. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629). Catalogue Raisonné (Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, vol. 10)
This book is the result of an unusual collaboration. When he died unexpectedly in August 2003, Leonard J. Slatkes left behind copious fractional entries and an elaborate photo archive for the present [...] Read More
Three Publications on Rembrandt
Gary Schwartz, The Rembrandt Book. New York: Abrams, 2006. 384 pp, 464 color, 185 b&w illus. ISBN 13-978-0-8109-4317-9. Mirjam Alexander-Knotter, Jasper Hillegers, and Edward van Voolen, with [...] Read More
In His Milieu. Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias
This hefty paperback – intellectually rigorous, yet lovingly devoted to the late economist, archivist and Vermeer scholar, John Michael Montias (1928-2005) – reflects both the respect and the [...] Read More
The Works of Peter Paul Rubens in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Reconsidered
In contrast to the many Rubens exhibitions from 2002 to 2006 that were attempting to give an overview of the artist’s work or some section of it, the Brussels exhibition Rubens. A Genius at Work, [...] Read More
Rubens and the Netherlands/ Rubens en de Nederlanden (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/ Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 55, 2004)
It was a neat coincidence that Peter Paul Rubens was chosen as the subject of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek of 2004, since that was the year in which the artist was celebrated in a number of [...] Read More