New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 188 pp, 96 illus (color and b&w). ISBN 0-300-09506-6
Fiona Donovan has written a trail-breaking survey of Rubens's relationship with England, centred on the nine paintings he provided to decorate the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall Palace in [...] Read More
Edited by Arnout Balis (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XV). London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2005, 2 vols, 524 pp, 12 col. illus, 220 b&w illus. ISBN 0-905203-72-0
Although the text, as the author tells us, was completed at the end of the last century, Gregory Martin's two volumes on Rubens's paintings for the Whitehall Ceiling is the most exhaustive and [...] Read More
Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005. 290 pp, 56 color, 176 b&w illus. ISBN 0-89468-348-9
The Systematic Catalogue series documenting the rich collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington continues to grow since its inception in the 1980s. Exactly twenty years have passed since [...] Read More
Mechelen: Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet, 2005. 114 pp, 54 b&w illus. ISBN 90-9019982-9
Regular readers of this Review might recognize the whimsically named Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinett from its earlier exhibition, De Zotte Schilders (2003), catalogue by Eric De Bruyn and Jan Op de [...] Read More
Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2004. Vol. I, 420 pp, 273 b&w illus; Vol. II, Catalogue, 544 pp, 312 plates, color and b&w. ISBN 3-87157-204-7
Dorothea Diemer's tandem monograph on Hubert Gerhard and Carlo di Cesare del Palagio, two sculptors working at the late sixteenth-century court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria, reaches far beyond the [...] Read More
Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2005. 504 pp, 78 color plates, 282 b/w illus. ISBN 3-7774-2275-0
The past decade has seen a definite resurgence of art historical scholarship on Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8 - 1543). Jochen Sander's recent book contributes much to this reawakened dialogue. His [...] Read More