Until the publication of this dedicated rescue operation, Adriaen Thomasz. has been one of the most ill-defined artists working in Antwerp during the turbulent times of the second half of the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter
In the Prologue, Walter Gibson describes his book as a more detailed version of the study of laughter that extends the fourth chapter of his earlier book, Pleasant Places (2000). However, here the [...] Read More
Patinir. Essays and Critical Catalogue
Alejandro Vergara has performed an enormous service for scholarship on Nether-landish painting. By mounting a Patinir exhibition around the core collection of the Prado, he transformed a focus [...] Read More
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes. The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market
The book opens with an introduction of notable original methodology (‘”C ultural selection” and the Origins of Pictorial Species,’ pp. 1-15), which, in reference to George Kubler, invokes archaeology [...] Read More
Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen/ Antwerp Royal Museum Annual 2004/05
Investigating ‘a forgotten chapter of Antwerp painting, 1500-1530,’ the exhibition ExtravagAnt!, shared in 2005-06 by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, [...] Read More
Das Geheimnis des Jan van Eyck, Die frühen niederländischen Zeichnungen und Gemälde in Dresden
Inspired by the 150-year anniversary of Gottfried Semper’s museum building on the Zwinger in Dresden, which was originally intended to house both drawings and paintings, this exhibition and catalogue [...] Read More