Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

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

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