Book Reviews

Rubens. A Master in the Making

By David Jaffé and Elizabeth McGrath

With contributions by Amanda Bradley and Minna Moore Ede. [Cat. exh. National Gallery, London, 26 October 2005 – 15 January 2006]. London: National Gallery Company [distributor: Yale University Press, New Haven], 2005. 208 pp. ISBN 1 85709 371 2 (hardcover); 1 85709 326 7

Review published April 2006

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

By Teréz Gerszi

Budapest: Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, 2005. 393 pp, 102 color, 350 b&w illus, 87 comparative text figs. ISBN 963-7063-08-0

Review published April 2006

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

By various authors

Review published April 2006

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

By Wolfgang Mieder (ed.)

(Supplement Series of Proverbium, Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 16). Burlington (Vermont): The University of Vermont, 2004. XII, 241 pp, b&w illus. ISBN 0-9710223-8-0

Review published April 2006

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

Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe, c. 1500-1750

By Christopher Baker, Caroline Elam and Genevieve Warwick (eds.)

Aldershot (Hants)/Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate, in association with The Burlington Magazine, 2003. xvii, 225 pp, ISBN 0-7546-0037-8

Review published November 2005

In June 1997 a conference on the collecting of prints and drawings in Europe, c. 1500-1750, was held at the National Gallery, London, organized by The Burlington Magazine and sponsored by the Getty [...] Read More

Deutsche Gemälde im Städel 1500-1550

By Bodo Brinkmann and Stephan Kemperdick

(Kataloge der Gemälde im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, V). Mainz: Philipp von Zabern 2005. 585 pp, 81 color plates, 428 b&w illus. ISBN 3-8053-3350-1

Review published November 2005

Fifth in a series of exemplary catalogues of the permanent collection of the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, this sumptuously produced volume follows two prior volumes by Jochen Sander of the [...] Read More

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