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Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen/ Antwerp Royal Museum Annual 2004/05

By Paul Vandenbroeck, ed.

Guest editors Maximiliaan Martens and Peter van den Brink, with text editor Kristin Belkin. 376 pp. ISSN 0770/3104

Review published November 2007

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

By Thomas Ketelsen and Uta Neidhardt, with the collaboration of Konstanze Krüger and Christien Melzer

With contributions by Till-Holger Borchert, Bodo Brinkmann, Georg Dietz, Thera Folmer-von Oven, Oliver Hahn, Annette Hojer, Christine Kitzlinger, Konstanze Krüger, Christien Melzer, Silke Merchel, Erwin Pokorny, Ina Reiche, Christoph Schölzel, Patrick Seurinck and Olaf Simon. [Cat. exh. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, August 13 – October 31, 2005.] Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005. 264 pp, ISBN 3-422-06566-0

Review published November 2007

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

The Flemish Primitives, IV: Masters with Provisional Names

By Pascale Syfer-d’Olne, Roel Slachmuylders, Anne Dubois, Bart Fransen and Famke Peters

(Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels). Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. 458 pp, 73 color plates, 291 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-51743-9

Review published November 2007

This is the fourth in a projected series of five catalogues on the Belgian Royal Museums’ collection of early Netherlandish painting. It follows volumes on The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der [...] Read More

Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts across Europe

By Marina Belozerskaya

Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2002. 398 pp, 25 color, 86 b&w illus. ISBN 0-521-80850-2

Review published November 2007

In Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts across Europe,Marina Belozerskaya is on a mission. First and foremost, she seeks to reclaim for Burgundian arts and culture the central position they [...] Read More

Ein ‘Schau-Spiel’ der Malkunst. Das Fensterbild in der holländischen Malerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts

By Stephanie Sonntag

München/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 367 pp, 16 color, 80 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-06605-5

Review published April 2007

The topic of Stephanie Sonntag’s well-researched dissertation is the so-called Fensterbild (window view) by the Leiden fijnschilders, a formula that was developed by Gerrit Dou at the end of the 1640s [...] Read More

Pieter Lastman: In Rembrandts Schatten?

By Martina Sitt (ed.)

[Cat. exh. Kunsthalle, Hamburg, April 13 – July 30, 2006.] Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2006. 152 pp, 69 color, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-2985-4

Review published April 2007

One side-effect of 2006, the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, is the attention paid to Pieter Lastman. Perhaps Lastman is destined forever to be known as Rembrandt’s teacher, but it is time he [...] Read More

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