New York, The Frick Collection, June 18 – August 31, 2025.
Exh. cat. by Robert Fucci. New York, Rizzoli Electa in association with The Frick Collection, 2025. 96 pp, 60 color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-4594-1.
Published in conjunction with the special focus exhibition marking the long-awaited reopening of the Frick Collection, Robert Fucci’s Vermeer’s Love Letters reflects the aims of the show it [...] Read More
Gerlinde Gruber (curator)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, September 30, 2025 – February 22, 2026; London, Royal Academy of Arts, March 27, 2026 – June 21, 2026
Exh. cat. by Gerline Gruber, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, and Julien Domercq. Stuttgart, Belser, 2025. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1915815200.
Michaelina Wautier, Malerin presented some true delights for the specialist visitor familiar with the oeuvre of an artist little known before the groundbreaking Antwerp exhibition of her work in 2018. [...] Read More
Château de Chantilly, June 7 – October 5, 2025.
Exh. cat. ed. by Mathieu Deldicque, English edition: Antwerp: Hannibal Books, 2025. 416 pp. ISBN-13: 978-9464941920 (distributed in the U.S. by Rizzoli). French edition: In Fine éditions d'art; Musée Condé, 2025. 496 pp, 460 color illus. EAN/ISBN: 978-2382032237.
The Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated exhibit of the year. The famous manuscript has [...] Read More
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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