Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Autour de Henri Bles (Monographies du Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, 20)

By Jacques Toussaint, ed.

[Cat. Exh., Musée des Arts Anciens, Namur, May 13 – November 1, 2000]. Namur: Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, 2000. 288 pp, 282 illus., 179 in colour, 38 drawings and tables

Review published April 2001

This is the catalogue of a comprehensive exhibition on Herri met de Bles and his artistic entourage, held at the Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, Namur, May 13 – November 1, 2000. The exhibition [...] Read More

Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626, Imperial Sculptor

By Frits Scholten, ed.

[Cat. Exh., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles] Zwolle: Waanders, 1998. 312 pp, 234 illus. in colour and b&w, ISBN 0- 89236-553-6

Review published April 2001

Adriaen de Vries, sculptor to royal courts and wealthy cities, is the subject of the recent exhibition in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Los Angeles; the accompanying catalogue is the first lengthy [...] Read More

Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection

By Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck

[Cat. Exh., Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 3, 1999 – January 2, 2000; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, January 29 – March 26, 2000; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, December 16 – February 25, 2001]. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 1999. 144 pp, 42 col. illus., 21 b&w illus. SBN 0-9653805-7-2

Review published April 2001

Sheldon and Leena Peck are among several notable Boston-area collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Inspired by Konrad Oberhuber at the Fogg Art Museum in 1978, they have assembled a sizable [...] Read More

Images of Death. Rubens Copies Holbein

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Carl Depauw, eds.

With contributions by Michael Kwakkelstein, Kristin Lohse Belkin and Volker Manuth [Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Rubens, Holbein and the Dance of Death. On the Acquisition of a Sketchbook, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, April 8 – June 12, 2000]. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon; Antwerp: Rubens-huis, 2000. 140 pp, 47 col. pls, 97 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5349-320-4

Review published April 2001

Credit is due to the Stedelijk Prentenkabinet and the Rubenshuis in Antwerp for, respectively, acquiring and exhibiting 44 pen and wash drawings by the young Rubens after the Images of Death, the [...] Read More

Leven na de dood. Gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen

By Truus van Bueren

With contributions by W. C. M. Wüstefeld [Cat. Exh., Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 11 December 1999 _ 26 March 2000]. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. 280 pp, 230 illus., many in col. ISBN 2-503-50942-8

Review published November 2000

In 1994, Truus van Bueren started an investigation into 'Care for the here and the hereafter: Commemorative representations in the (arch)bishopric of Utrecht in the late Middle Ages'. The exhibition [...] Read More

Bruges and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus

By Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, ed.

Cat. Exh. Memlingmuseum_Oud-Sint-Janshospitaal, Brugge. Ghent: Stichting Kunstboek/Ludion 1998. 319 pp, ISBN 90-5544-233-X (paper), 90-5544-234-8 (hardback); also available in Dutch, French and German

Review published November 2000

A second volume to the catalogue appears as: Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, ed., Bruges et la Renaissance. De Memling à Pourbus: Notices [Cat. Exh.] Ghent: Ludion/Flammarion Stichting Kunstboek, 1998. [...] Read More

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