Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht Work: Paintings and Drawings by the 17th-century Master of Perspective

By Liesbeth M. Helmus (ed.)

[Exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, November 4, 2000 – February 4, 2001]. Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 2000. 304 pp, 67 col. illus., many b&w col. comparative illus. ISBN 90-73285-75-5

Review published May 2002

This marvelous exhibition, and its handsome and informative catalogue, have succeeded in bringing alive a fascinating period in Pieter Saenredam’s life, his twenty-week sojourn in Utrecht from [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints

By Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Michiel C. Plomp, Larry Silver, and Jürgen Müller

Edited by Nadine M. Orenstein. Jürgen Müller’s texts translated by Russell M. Stockman. New York, New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001. 336 pp, 108 color illus., 288 b&w illus. ISBN 0-87099-990-7; 0-300-09014-5, paperbound, ISBN 0-87099-991-5

Review published May 2002

Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been under a brilliant spotlight for some thirty years – a light which has faded away many traditional notions about this artist. A concentrated look at Bruegel’s drawn [...] Read More

Two Publications on Pieter Bruegel

By various authors

Review published November 2001

Jürgen Müller, Das Paradox als Bildform. Studien zur Ikonologie Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1999. 195 pp, 6 col. and 48 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7705-3191-4. ‘Pieter Bruegel [...] Read More

Hieronymus Bosch in Rotterdam, Two Catalogues

By various authors

Review published November 2001

J. Koldeweij, B. Vermet, P. Vandenbroeck, Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings [Cat. exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 1 – November 11, 2001]. Rotterdam: Museum [...] Read More

O Musica, du edle Kunst. Musik und Tanz im 16. Jahrhundert/Music for a While. Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints

By Thea Vignau-Wilberg

Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints. With English translation by Michael Robertson. Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen, 1999. 224 pp, 90 b&w illus. ISBN 3-927803-29-4

Review published November 2001

This exhibition catalogue brings together late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century prints with musical subject matter, drawn from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. Its author, an authority on [...] Read More

Vermeer and the Delft School

By Walter Liedtke et al

[Cat. exh. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 8, 200 – May 27, 2001; The National Gallery, London, June 20 – September 16, 2001]. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 640 pp, 526 illus., incl. 225 col. plates, ISBN 0-87099-974-5

Review published November 2001

The exhibition catalogue Vermeer and the Delft School, written by an international team of scholars led by Walter Liedtke, makes a noteworthy contribution to the scholarly literature on the art of [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews