Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

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

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