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
Book Reviews
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
The Flemish Primitives, IV: Masters with Provisional Names
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
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
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