Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

Love Letters. Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer

By Peter C. Sutton, Lisa Vergara, and Ann Jensen Adams, with Jennifer Kilian and Marjorie E. Wieseman

[Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, January 31 - May 2, 2004; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October 1 - December 31, 2003.] Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2003. 208 pp, 76 color plates, 94 b&w illus. ISBN 0-9720736-6-3

Review published November 2004

A decade ago, few connoisseurs of old master painting would have listed the Bruce Museum, in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut, among major exhibition venues. Peter Sutton, who joined the Bruce as [...] Read More

Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475

By Adelaide Louise Bennett, et al.

[Cat. exh. Stedelijk Museum Vander Kelen-Mertens, Leuven, September 21 - December 8, 2002.] Turnhout: Brepols; Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2002. 342 pp, col. illus. ISBN: 90-582-6209-X (Davidsfonds); 2-503-52211-4 (Brepols)

Review published April 2004

The history of the illuminated codex, as the exhibition catalogueMedieval Mastery reminds us, more or less coincides with the Middle Ages. The centrality of reading and writing to medieval life and [...] Read More

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