Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Three Publications on Rembrandt

By various authors

Review published November 2008

Gary Schwartz, The Rembrandt Book. New York: Abrams, 2006. 384 pp, 464 color, 185 b&w illus. ISBN 13-978-0-8109-4317-9. Mirjam Alexander-Knotter, Jasper Hillegers, and Edward van Voolen, with [...] Read More

Jean Del Cour Featured in Two Catalogues

By Michel Lefftz

Review published April 2008

Michel Lefftz, Jean Del Cour 1631-1707. Un émule du Bernin à Liège. [Cat. exh. Église Saint-Barthélemy, Liège, October 19, 2007 – February 3, 2008.] Brussels: Édition Racine, 2007. 192 pp, 249 illus. [...] Read More

Das Geheimnis des Jan van Eyck, Die frühen niederländischen Zeichnungen und Gemälde in Dresden

By Thomas Ketelsen and Uta Neidhardt, with the collaboration of Konstanze Krüger and Christien Melzer

With contributions by Till-Holger Borchert, Bodo Brinkmann, Georg Dietz, Thera Folmer-von Oven, Oliver Hahn, Annette Hojer, Christine Kitzlinger, Konstanze Krüger, Christien Melzer, Silke Merchel, Erwin Pokorny, Ina Reiche, Christoph Schölzel, Patrick Seurinck and Olaf Simon. [Cat. exh. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, August 13 – October 31, 2005.] Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005. 264 pp, ISBN 3-422-06566-0

Review published November 2007

Inspired by the 150-year anniversary of Gottfried Semper’s museum building on the Zwinger in Dresden, which was originally intended to house both drawings and paintings, this exhibition and catalogue [...] Read More

Pieter Lastman: In Rembrandts Schatten?

By Martina Sitt (ed.)

[Cat. exh. Kunsthalle, Hamburg, April 13 – July 30, 2006.] Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2006. 152 pp, 69 color, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-2985-4

Review published April 2007

One side-effect of 2006, the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, is the attention paid to Pieter Lastman. Perhaps Lastman is destined forever to be known as Rembrandt’s teacher, but it is time he [...] Read More

Six Publications on Adam Elsheimer

By various authors

Review published April 2007

Rüdiger Klessmann, Im Detail die Welt entdecken: Adam Elsheimer 1578-1610. With contributions by Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Christian Tico Seifert, edited by Michael Maek-Gérard. [Cat. exh. Städelsches [...] Read More

ExtravagAnt! A Forgotten Chapter of Antwerp Painting, 1500-1530. Catalogue

By Peter van den Brink et al.

Edited by Kristin Lohse Belkin and Nico van Hout. [Cat. exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 15 – December 31, 2005; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, January 22 – April 9, 2006.] Wommelgem: Blondé 2005. 235 pp, 93 entries. ISBN (English) 9-085860-067. Also available in Dutch

Review published April 2007

The second part of this review will appear in November 2007. The HNA Review of Books should probably review more exhibitions and their catalogues, the more so when an important, if neglected, major [...] Read More

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