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Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House

By Tico Seifert (curator)

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, November 9, 2024 – February 23, 2025.

Exh. cat. by Charles Noble, Gregory Rubinstein and Christian Tico Seifert. Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, 2024. 120 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 9781911054672.

Review published September 2025

After a period of relative quiet, the last few years have seen a flurry of exhibitions of Northern European drawings across Britain, with more expected in 2026. These exhibitions have showcased the [...] Read More

Rubens’s Workshop

By Alejandro Vergara (curator)

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, October 15, 2024 – February 16, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Alejandro Vergara. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2024. 168 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-84-8480-622-6.

Review published September 2025

This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Prado between October 2024 and February 2025. It was organized by the Curator of Flemish paintings at the Museum, Alejandro Vergara, and is the [...] Read More

Turning Heads (Krasse Koppen): Rubens, Rembrandt and (en) Vermeer

By Nico Van Hout, Koen Bulckens, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Lizzie Marx, and Friederike Schütt, with Vicki Bruce & Andy Young, Sara de Bosschere, Cian McLoughlin, Elvis Pompilio, and Stephan Vanfleteren.

Exh. cat. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 20, 2023 – January 21, 2024; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 24 – May 26, 2024. Antwerp: Hannibal Books and KMSKA, 2023. 191 pp, 136 color illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 664 9.
English and Dutch editions (English reviewed here)

Review published September 2025

As psychologists have long known, there is no visual experience more powerful than coming face-to-face with another human being. It is not surprising, then, that human physiognomy has occupied artists [...] Read More

Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art

By Robert Schindler, Bernd Ebert, and Anna C. Knaap (curators)

Munich, Alte Pinakothek, November 26, 204 – March 16, 2025; Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, April 13 – July 27, 2025; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, August 23 – December 7, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Robert Schindler, Bernd Ebert, and Anna C. Knaap. With contributions by Marianne Berardi, Charles C. Davis, Lieke van Deinsen, Josephina de Fouw, Nouchka de Keyser, Jorinda Koenen, Bert van de Roemer, and Katharina Schmidt-Loske. Boston, MA, MFA Publications, 2025. 248 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-0-87846-899-7.

Review published August 2025

Every historian of Dutch art knows of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) but few know much about her. Flower painter, daughter of the famed anatomist Frederik Ruysch… and there it usually stops. There has not [...] Read More

Little Beasts. Art, Wonder, and the Natural World

By Alexandra Libby, Brooks Rich, and Stacey Sell (curators)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 18 – November 2, 2025 Exh. Cat. edited by Alexandra Libby, Brooks Rich, and Stacey Sell. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2025. 224 pp, 105 color illus. ISBN 978-0-69127-130-9.

Review published May 2025

Insects have been enjoying increased visibility in early modern art history studies. After the late Janice Neri’s book, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 [...] Read More

The Allure of Rome: Maarten Van Heemskerck Draws the City; Maarten van Heemskerck: 1498–1574

By Tatjana Bartsch, Christien Melzer and Hans-Ulrich Kessler (curators); Ilja M. Veldman (guest curator)

The Allure of Rome: Maarten Van Heemskerck Draws the City
By Tatjana Bartsch, Christien Melzer and Hans-Ulrich Kessler (curators)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, April 26 – August 4, 2024
Exhibition catalogue edited by Tatjana Bartsch and Christien Melzer. Munich: Hirmer, 2024. 352 pp, cat. fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-7774-4344-7.

Maarten van Heemskerck: 1498–1574
By Ilja M. Veldman (guest curator)
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar and Teylers Museum and Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, September 28, 2024 – January 19, 2025
Accompanying book by Ilja M. Veldman. Zwolle: WBOOKS, 2024. 303 pp, cat. fully illustrated in color. ISBN 9789462586567.

Review published March 2025

The books under review here support exhibitions of works by the Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) on the 450th anniversary of his death. With The Allure of Rome, spearheaded by Tatjana [...] Read More

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