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
Book Reviews
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
Sponsors of the Past: Flemish Art and Patronage 1550-1700. Proceedings of the Symposium Organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 14-15, 2001
On the cover of Sponsors of the Past, the proceedings of a symposium on Flemish patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries held in Leuven in 2001, we see a detail of a Triumph of Bacchus. On [...] Read More