The Learned Eye takes its name from a passage in Franciscus Junius's treatise on painting (1641) in which he argues for informed viewing as the essential skill on which critical aesthetic judgments [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader
As a discerning collector, generous benefactor, and perceptive scholar, Alfred Bader has made a lasting and significant contribution to the study of Netherlandish art. His autobiography Adventures of [...] Read More
Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
Those wishing to survey the variety and breadth of the oeuvre of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) or provide a handy reference in a footnote have hitherto reached for Gustav Glück, Van Dyck, des Meisters [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens, The Drawings
For those too young to have seen the great round of Rubens exhibitions staged in the 400th anniversary year of 1977, the remarkable 2004-05 exhibition, shown in Vienna and New York, was the first [...] Read More
The Eye of the Lynx. Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
The complete scientific compilation of natural history, especially the animal and plant world, was the principal project of the Accademia dei Lincei. Founded in 1603 by the Roman nobleman Federico [...] Read More
Die flämischen Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Sammlungskataloge des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums Braunschweig, 12)
The publication of this catalogue of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Flemish paintings in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig is a cause for celebration. This old and distinguished [...] Read More