Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Women of Distinction: Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria

By Dagmar Eichberger (ed.)

[Cat. exh. Lamot, Mechelen, September 17 - December 18, 2005.] Leuven: Davidsfonds; [Turnhout:] Brepols Publishers, 2005. 367 pp, numerous col. plates and b&w illus. ISBN 90-5826-342-8

Review published November 2006

Last fall, as part of a year-long celebration, "Mechelen 2005: City in Female Hands," the city of Mechelen mounted a major exhibition, "Dames met Klasse: Margareta van York en Margareta van [...] Read More

Four Focussed Studies on Rembrandt Drawings

By various authors

Review published April 2006

Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Rembrandt auf Papier. Werk und Wirkung. Rembrandt and his Followers. Drawings from Munich . With an essay by Peter Schatborn. [Cat. exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, December 5, 2001 [...] Read More

De verzameling Hofstede de Groot: Van Cuyp tot Rembrandt

By Luuk Pijl (ed.)

With essays by Rudi Ekkart, Dieuwertje Dekkers, Volker Manuth, et al. [Cat. exh. Groninger Museum, Groningen, November 12, 2005 – February 5, 2006.] Ghent: Snoeck Publishers, 2005. 320 pp, with b&w and color illus. ISBN 90-5349-591-6

Review published April 2006

The first Dutch university-educated art historian, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), grew up in the North Netherlandish towns of Kampen and Groningen and, because of poor health, at spas in [...] Read More

Rubens. A Master in the Making

By David Jaffé and Elizabeth McGrath

With contributions by Amanda Bradley and Minna Moore Ede. [Cat. exh. National Gallery, London, 26 October 2005 – 15 January 2006]. London: National Gallery Company [distributor: Yale University Press, New Haven], 2005. 208 pp. ISBN 1 85709 371 2 (hardcover); 1 85709 326 7

Review published April 2006

In July 2002, the art world gasped when Sotheby's knocked down to Lord Thomson of Fleet an old master painting for the unheard-of sum of almost $76 million (£49.5 million) – a financial league in [...] Read More

Carel Fabritius 1622-1654

By Frederik J. Duparc

With contributions by Ariane van Suchtelen and Gero Seelig. [Cat. exh. Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague, September 24, 2004 – January 9, 2005; Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, January 28 – May 16, 2005.] Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2004. 160 pp, 80 col. illus., 35 b&w illus. German ed: ISBN 90-400-9029-7 (pb); Dutch ed: ISBN 90-400-8987-6 (pb); English ed. ISBN 90-400-95-8989-2 (hb)/ 90-400-95-8988-4 (pb)

Review published November 2005

On the morning of Monday, October 12, 1654, the former sexton of the Oude Kerk in Delft was sitting to Carel Fabritius for his portrait in the latter’s studio on the Doelenstraat. Between 10 and 10:30 [...] Read More

Peter Paul Rubens, The Drawings

By Anne-Marie Logan, in collaboration with Michiel C. Plomp

[Cat. exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 15 – April 3, 2005.] New York: The Metropolitian Museum of Art; New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2005. 332 pp. ISBN 1-58839-139-6 (hardcover: Met. Mus.); 1-58839-141-8 (paperback: Met. Mus.); 0-300-10494-4 (Yale)

Review published November 2005

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

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