Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

Two Catalogues on Jacob van Ruisdael

By various authors

Review published April 2003

Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 788 pp, 328 color plates, 1112 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More

Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800

By Norbert Middelkoop, ed.

[Cat. exh. Amsterdams Historisch Museum, October 20, 2002 - January 26, 2003.] Bussum: Uitgeverij Thoth, 2002. 304 pp, 283 illus. ISBN 90-6868-315-2

Review published April 2003

This exhibition and its catalogue survey portraiture and portrait patronage in Amsterdam from the city's rise as the leading mercantile center of the Netherlands through its sedate quiescence in the [...] Read More

Rubens. Drawing on Italy

By Jeremy Wood

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 14 - September 1, 2002; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, September 21 - December 8, 2002.] Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 2002. 95 pp, with illus., 20 in color, ISBN 1-903278-31-7

Review published April 2003

The outstanding exhibition, Rubens, Drawing on Italy, shown in Edinburgh and Nottingham, shed considerable light on the highly complex subject of Rubens's reworking and 'improvement' of drawings by [...] Read More

Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680

By Karl Schütz, Ute Kleinmann, Konrad Renger, Alexander Wied, Arnout Balis, Stephan Brakensiek, Uwe Wieczorek, Klaus Ertz and Wolfgang Prohaska

[Cat. exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 18 - July 21, 2002; Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Villa Hügel, Essen, September 1 - December 8, 2002.] Lingen: Luca Verlag, 2002. 402 pp, ISBN 3-932641-49-4

Review published April 2003

My first impression of the exhibition, which I saw in Essen, was that it was unusually large and impressive for a thematically-focused show (126 works). It comprised eleven sections correspond ing to [...] Read More

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Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews