Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

From Scribble to Cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections

By Virginie D’haene, ed.

[Cat. exh. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, November 17, 2023 – February 18, 2024]. Ghent: Artha, 2023. 320 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-94-6436-813-0.

Review published May 2024

In 1548, early in his printing career, Christophe Plantin left Paris for the greater opportunities and resources of Antwerp. There, he established one of the leading printmaking and publishing houses [...] Read More

Dieric Bouts: Creator of Images

By Peter Carpreau (curator)

M Leuven, October 20, 2023 – January 14, 2024

Exh. cat. edited by Peter Carpreau. Veurne: Hannibal Books, 2023. 240 pp, 123 illus. ISBN 978-94-6466-666-3 (Dutch edition), 978-94-6466-681-6 (English edition).

Review published April 2024

In fifteenth-century Leuven, Dieric Bouts (c. 1410/1420-1475) produced high-quality panel paintings that have remained somewhat eclipsed by the oeuvres of figures such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van [...] Read More

Melchior Lorck: An Artist in Transit

By Hanne Kolind Poulsen

SMK Statens Museum for Kunst/ The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, November 9, 2023 – March 3, 2024.
Exh. cat. edited by Hanne Kolind Poulsen and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, Melchior Lorck – Facts, Fiction, Interpretation, Copenhagen, 1923, 152 pp. ISBN 978-87-7551-205-8.

Review published January 2024

The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at The National Museum of Denmark (SMK) holds what is perhaps the world’s largest collection of works by Melchior Lorck (1526/7 – 1583). The exhibition Melchior [...] Read More

Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits

By Sara van Dijk and Matthias Ubl, with contributions by Friso Lammertse and Ilona van Tuinen

Exh. Cat., The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2021. 268 pp. 178 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-9032-650-0.

Review published December 2023

This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More

Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss

By Stephan Kemperdick and Erik Eising (curators)

Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, March 31 – July 16, 2023.

Exh. cat. edited by Stephan Kemperdick and Erik Eising, with the collaboration of Till-Holger Borchert. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2023. 304 pp, 250 illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-3847-4 (German edition), 978-3-7774-3848-1 (English edition).

Review published September 2023

A monographic exhibition on the early Netherlandish painter Hugo van der Goes had been long overdue, and so Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss was a notable event. Curated by Stephan Kemperdick [...] Read More

Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel

By Emily J. Peters and Laura M. Ritter, eds.

Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art and Albertina Museum, Vienna. Cleveland venue: October 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, 322 pp., 252 color ills., ISBN 978-0-300-26669-6.

Review published March 2023

The legendary drawings collection of the Albertina in Vienna, which includes peerless holdings of early Netherlandish drawings, was on glorious display at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 2022 [...] Read More

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