Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Rubens. The Power of Transformation

By Gerlinde Gruber, Sabine Haag, Stefan Weppelmann and Jochen Sander, eds.

(Exh. cat. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, October 17, 2017 – January 21, 2018; Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. M., February 8 – May 21, 2018.) Munich: Hirmer, 2017. 312 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-7774-2858-1 (English).

Review published August 2018

Rubens. The Power of Transformation at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, was a truly opulent show about the creative processes of Peter Paul Rubens. The KHM [...] Read More

François Ier et l’art des Pays-Bas

By Cécile Scailliérez, ed.

[Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris, October 18, 2017 – January 15, 2018.] Paris: Somogy éditions d’Art, 2017. 479 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-27572-1304-9.

Review published June 2018

Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuto Cellini, Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio: these are the names are traditionally associated with the patronage of Francis I, who is chiefly [...] Read More

Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678). [Cat. exh. Stedlijk Museum, Alkmaar, September 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017.]

By Christi M. Klinkert and Yvonne Bleyerveld, eds.

Zwolle: Waanders, 2016. 208 pp, 150 colored illus. ISBN 978-94-6262-108-4.

Review published October 2017

Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More

Hercules Segers: Painter Etcher

By Huigen Leeflang and Pieter Roelofs, eds.

[Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 7, 2016 – January 8, 2017; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 13 – May 21, 2017.] 2 vols. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2016. 700 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6208-342-4.

Review published September 2017

Hercules Segers: Painter, Etcher does much to advance our understanding of an artist whose work is often described as enigmatic and – as the accompanying exhibition calls it – ‘mysterious.’ Since the [...] Read More

Hieronymus Bosch, Visions of Genius / Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition

By Larry Silver

Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, February 13 – May 8, 2016

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 31 – September 11, 2016

Review published April 2017

Matthijs Ilsink and Jos Koldeweij, Hieronymus Bosch, Visions of Genius. [Cat. exh. Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, February 13 – May 8, 2016.] Brussels: Mercatorfonds, distributed by Yale [...] Read More

The Art of Clara Peeters

By Alejandro Vergara, ed.

With essays by Alejandro Vergara and Anne Lenders. [Cat. exh. Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp, June 16 – October 2, 2016; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, October 25, 2016 – February 19, 2017.] Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten; Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016. 136 pp, fully illus. in color. ISBN 978-84-8480-324-9

Review published April 2017

The Art of Clara Peeters was an especially welcome exhibition shown at the Rockoxhuis in Antwerp and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid not only because of the attraction generally held by [...] Read More

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