Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

A House of Art: Rubens as Collector

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Fiona Healy

With an introductory essay by Jeffrey M. Muller and catalogue entries by Kristin Lohse Belkin, Fiona Healy and Gregory Martin. [Cat. exh. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, March 6 - June 13, 2004.] Antwerp: Rubenshuis and Rubenianum; Schoten: BAI, 2004. 342 pp. ISBN 90-76704-69-4 (hardcover) 90-76704-70-8 (paperback)

Review published April 2005

The staging of the exhibition 'A House of Art: Rubens as Collector' in 2004 is, without doubt, the most ambitious project ever undertaken at the Rubenshuis - the house-museum of Peter Paul Rubens [...] Read More

Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts

By Susan Dackerman

With an essay by Thomas Primeau [Cat. exh. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, October 6, 2002 - January 5, 2003; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, February 14-- May 18, 2003.] Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with the Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. 297 pp, 85 col. and 7 b&w illus. ISBN 0-271-02234-5 (cloth); 0-271-02235-03 (paper)

Review published April 2005

One of my students likened our entrance into the galleries of the exhibition, Painted Prints, while on a class trip to Baltimore, to that of Dorothy's stepping into Oz - the moment at which Dorothy [...] Read More

Art from the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419

By Stephen N. Fliegel and Sophia Jugie, et al.

[Cat. exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, May 27 - September 15, 2004; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004 - January 9, 2005.] Paris and Cleveland: éditions de la Réunion des Musées nationaux and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004. 367 pp, illustrated (with some color), map. ISBN 2-7118-4864-7

Review published April 2005

This catalogue - the English language version of L'art à la cour de Bourgogne: le mécénat de Philippe le Hardi et de Jean sans Peur (1364-1419) - accompanied the exhibition commemorating the 600th [...] Read More

Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher

By Clifford S. Ackley, Ronni Baer, Tom Rassieur

[Cat. exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 26, 2003 - January 18, 2004; Art Institute of Chicago, February 14 - May 9, 2004.] Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2003. 345 pp, 244 illus. ISBN 0-87846-678-9

Review published November 2004

The end of the twentieth century, and beginning of the twenty-first, have seen no diminution of interest in the seventeenth-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn, at least as gauged by museum exhibitions. [...] Read More

The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt

By Ernst van de Wetering and Bernhard Schackenburg, eds.

[Cat. exh. Staatliche Museen Kassel, November 3, 2001 - January 27, 2002; Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, February 20 - May 26, 2002.] Wolfratshausen: Edition Minerva, 2001. 415 pp, 152 color, 121 b&w plates. ISBN 3-932353-59-5

Review published November 2004

Sometimes it is necessary to take a small step backward in order to get set for a long leap forward. Such was the sense of the exhibition "The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt," sponsored by the [...] Read More

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