Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, October 15, 2024 – February 16, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Alejandro Vergara. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2024. 168 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-84-8480-622-6.
This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Prado between October 2024 and February 2025. It was organized by the Curator of Flemish paintings at the Museum, Alejandro Vergara, and is the [...] Read More
Exh. cat. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 20, 2023 – January 21, 2024; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 24 – May 26, 2024. Antwerp: Hannibal Books and KMSKA, 2023. 191 pp, 136 color illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 664 9.
English and Dutch editions (English reviewed here)
As psychologists have long known, there is no visual experience more powerful than coming face-to-face with another human being. It is not surprising, then, that human physiognomy has occupied artists [...] Read More
Munich, Alte Pinakothek, November 26, 204 – March 16, 2025; Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, April 13 – July 27, 2025; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, August 23 – December 7, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Robert Schindler, Bernd Ebert, and Anna C. Knaap. With contributions by Marianne Berardi, Charles C. Davis, Lieke van Deinsen, Josephina de Fouw, Nouchka de Keyser, Jorinda Koenen, Bert van de Roemer, and Katharina Schmidt-Loske. Boston, MA, MFA Publications, 2025. 248 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-0-87846-899-7.
Every historian of Dutch art knows of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) but few know much about her. Flower painter, daughter of the famed anatomist Frederik Ruysch… and there it usually stops. There has not [...] Read More
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 18 – November 2, 2025 Exh. Cat. edited by Alexandra Libby, Brooks Rich, and Stacey Sell. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2025. 224 pp, 105 color illus. ISBN 978-0-69127-130-9.
Insects have been enjoying increased visibility in early modern art history studies. After the late Janice Neri’s book, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 [...] Read More
The Allure of Rome: Maarten Van Heemskerck Draws the City
By Tatjana Bartsch, Christien Melzer and Hans-Ulrich Kessler (curators)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, April 26 – August 4, 2024
Exhibition catalogue edited by Tatjana Bartsch and Christien Melzer. Munich: Hirmer, 2024. 352 pp, cat. fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-7774-4344-7.
Maarten van Heemskerck: 1498–1574
By Ilja M. Veldman (guest curator)
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar and Teylers Museum and Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, September 28, 2024 – January 19, 2025
Accompanying book by Ilja M. Veldman. Zwolle: WBOOKS, 2024. 303 pp, cat. fully illustrated in color. ISBN 9789462586567.
The books under review here support exhibitions of works by the Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) on the 450th anniversary of his death. With The Allure of Rome, spearheaded by Tatjana [...] Read More
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, November 2, 2023 – February 18, 2024; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 19 – June 30, 2024
Exh. cat. edited by Guido Messling and Jochen Sander. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2023, 360 pp, 287 illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-3-7774-4203-7 (English), 978-3-7774-4202-0 (German).
Along with Nuremberg, Augsburg was a leading center of art production in the early sixteenth century in Upper Germany, one that until recently in the scholarship has tended to play second fiddle to [...] Read More