Book Reviews

Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800. Vol. 1: Künstler geboren bis 1615

By Mirjam Neumeister, in collaboration with Christiane Haeseler

Petersberg/Frankfurt: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2005. 568 pp, 571 color and b&w illus. ISBN 3-937251-36-7

Review published April 2007

Although the private foundation of public museums is a common phenomenon in North America, it forms the exception in Europe, and the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt is the only prominent [...] Read More

Selected Writings on Dutch Painting. Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer and Others

By Albert Blankert

With Foreword by John Walsh. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2004. 77 color, 227 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9032-9

Review published April 2007

Having regrettably put off writing this review for far too long, I sat down to read through this book with no idea of how many subtle pleasures awaited me. The project of assembling a selection of [...] Read More

Six Publications on Adam Elsheimer

By various authors

Review published April 2007

Rüdiger Klessmann, Im Detail die Welt entdecken: Adam Elsheimer 1578-1610. With contributions by Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Christian Tico Seifert, edited by Michael Maek-Gérard. [Cat. exh. Städelsches [...] Read More

David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting

By Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen (ed.)

With essays by Margret Klinge, Giles Waterfield and James Methuen-Campbell and contributions by Caroline Campbell and Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen. [Cat. exh. Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London, October 16, 2006 – January 21, 2007]. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2006. 135 pp, 124 color plates, 5 b&w illus. ISBN 1-903470-69-2

Review published April 2007

This small exhibition, installed in one room at Somerset House, was dedicated to David Teniers’s Theatrum Pictorium or “Theatre of Painting”, published in 1660 in Brussels. The show was built around [...] Read More

Lambert Lombard: Peintre de la Renaissance, Liège 1505/06-1566. Essais interdisciplinaires et catalogue de l’exposition

By Godelieve Denhaene (ed.)

[Cat. exh. Salle Saint-Georges, Musée de l’Art Wallon, Liège, April 21 – August 6, 2006.] (Institut royal du Patrimoine Artistique de Belgique, Scientia Artis, 3). Brussels: KIK/IRPA, 2006. 534 pp, 480 illus. No ISBN. Also available in Dutch

Review published April 2007

This excellent, lavishly illustrated catalogue is Godelieve Denhaene’s latest study to expand our understanding of Lambert Lombard, the mid-sixteenth-century Liègeois antiquarian, draftsman, painter, [...] Read More

The Early Modern Painter-Etcher

By Michael Cole (ed.)

University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, April 15 – June 11, 2006; John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, July 1 – August 19, 2006; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, September 1 – October 29, 2006]. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 189 pp, 152 b&w illus. ISBN 0-251-02905-6

Review published April 2007

The Early Modern Painter-Etcher is the catalogue of an exhibition originating at the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and traveling to the John and Mable Ringling [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

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