The central motivation behind this exhibition was to place the National Gallery of Ireland's Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Rembrandt in a wider context. One of the great achievements of the show [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Lives of Rubens
The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible [...] Read More
Rubens. A Master in the Making
In July 2002, the art world gasped when Sotheby's knocked down to Lord Thomson of Fleet an old master painting for the unheard-of sum of almost $76 million (£49.5 million) – a financial league in [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. A Complete Catalogue
This catalogue, dedicated to the memory of Frans Baudouin, is a great achievement. Teréz Gerszi, the doyenne of Dutch and Flemish drawings at the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum and now curator emerita , is to [...] Read More
Two Books on Catharina van Hemessen
Marguerite Droz-Emmert, Catharina van Hemessen. Malerin der Renaissance, Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2004. 196 pp, 8 color plates, 29 b&w illus. ISBN: 3-7965-2095-2. Karolien De Clippel, Catharina [...] Read More
The Netherlandish Proverbs. An International Symposium on the Pieter Brueg(h)els
This volume offers a lively record of the proceedings of an international symposium held at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of the University of Vermont in March, 2004. The topical focus of the [...] Read More