Book Reviews

Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

By Andrea G. Pearson

Aldershot, Hampshire (England)/ Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. 236 pp, ISBN 0-7546-5154-1

Review published April 2007

Andrea Pearson’s pioneering study maps out an intriguing plan for examining Burgundian devotional art in the late middle ages by adopting an unaccustomed focus: that of the gender of its patrons and [...] Read More

Frans van Mieris 1635-1681

By Quentin Buvelot

With essays by Otto Naumann and Eddy de Jongh, and contributions by Pieter van der Ploeg, Bieke van der Mark, and Carol Pottasch. [Cat. exh. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 1, 2005 - January 22, 2006 (as Frans van Mieris 1635-1681: Fijngeschildered verhalen); National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, February 26 - May 21, 2006 (as Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris).] Zwolle: Waanders, 2005. 256 pp, 142 color, 72 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9176-5 (hardback); 90-400-8161-1 (paperback)

Review published November 2006

To optimally experience the precious creations of the Dutchfijnschilders - those tiny painted worlds, rich and dense with an obsessive attention to detail - one should view them in an environment that [...] Read More

Rembrandt and Dutch History Painting Exhibition Catalogue and Proceedings

By Akira Kofuku et al.

Review published November 2006

Akira Kofuku et al., Rembrandt and the Rembrandt School: The Bible, Mythology and Ancient History. [Cat. exh. The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, September 13 - December 14, 2003.] Text in [...] Read More

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits

By Stichting Rembrandt Research Project. Ernst van de Wetering, with contributions by Karin Groen, Peter Klein, Jaap van der Veen, Marieke de Winkel, and collaboration by Paul Broekhoff, Michiel Franken, and Lideke Peese Binkhorst

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. 690 pp, 457 b&w, 250 color illus. ISBN 10-1-4020-3280-3 and 13-978-1-4020-3280-6

Review published November 2006

(The review first appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 3, 2006) Joseph Heller, in Picture this (1988, p. 59): "Rembrandt did some fifty-two self-portraits that have come down to us, [...] Read More

The Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic

By Herman Roodenburg

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2005. 208 pp, 8 color plates, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9474-8

Review published November 2006

The work of the cultural historian Herman Roodenburg has long been of interest to art historians who share his fascination with codes of civility in early modern social discourse. In this book, [...] Read More

Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship

By Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen

With contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum. [Cat. exh. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 5 - September 4, 2006; The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 21 - January 28, 2007.] Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2006. 274 pp, color and b&w illus. ISBN 0-89236-848-9

Review published November 2006

Ever since the correspondence between Jan Brueghel the Elder and his benefactor in Milan, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, was brought into circulation the reference by the Velvet Brueghel to Peter Paul [...] Read More