Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

Krone und Schleier: Kunst in mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern

By Ed. Jeffrey Hamburger, Robert Suckale, et al.

[Cat. exh. Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen: Die frühen Klöster und Stifte 500-1200 / Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn: Die Zeit der Orden 1200-1500.] Essen/Bonn 2005. 583 pp, 780 illus, most in color. ISBN 3-7774-2565-6

Review published November 2005

This vast and visually rich two-part exhibition necessitated multiple visits. The early material (made before 1200) was displayed in the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen, where the exhibition borrowed the cool [...] Read More

Matters of Taste. Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life

By Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose

With essays by Charles T. Gehring and Nancy T. Minty, and supplementary cookbook by Peter G. Rose. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History & Art; Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8156-0747-4

Review published April 2005

This catalogue was published for the exhibition that celebrated the 350th anniversary (1652-2002) of the founding of Beverwijck, the original Dutch settlement that became present-day Albany, New York. [...] Read More

Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens

By Peter C. Sutton, Marjorie E. Wieseman

With a contribution by Nico van Hout. [Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 2, 2004 - January 30, 2005; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, March 2 - May 15, 2005; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11 - September 11, 2005] New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. 272 pp, 43 col. and numerous b&w illus. ISBN 0-300-10626-2

Review published April 2005

There dawned one realisation during the symposium at the Bruce Museum, held towards the end of its Rubens oil sketches show (January 22, 2005), as the great blizzard swept north from New York, and the [...] Read More

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