Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Black in Rembrandt’s Time

By Elmer Kolfin and Epco Runia, eds., with contributions by Stefanie Archangel, Mark Ponte, Marieke de Winkel, and David de Witt

Exh. Cat., The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, March 5 – May 31, 2020, extended to September 10, 2020. Zwolle: WBOOKS, 2020. 135 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-625-8372-6 (English), 978-94-625-8371-9 (Dutch).

Review published August 2020

In recent decades, art museums in Europe and North America have increasingly staged exhibitions contextualizing the multi-dimensional nature of our shared cultural heritage. The decision to mount [...] Read More

Pieter de Hooch in Delft. From the Shadow of Vermeer

By Anita Jansen

Exh. cat. Museum Prinsenhof, Delft, October 11, 2019 – February 16, 2020. Zwolle: WBOOKS, 2020. 224 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6258327-6.

Review published January 2020

Somewhat surprisingly, the present exhibition is the first ever devoted to Pieter de Hooch in The Netherlands. There have been exhibitions that featured his work in numbers among other Delft Masters, [...] Read More

Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer: Parallel Visions / Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer: Miradas afines

By Alejandro Vergara, ed.

Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, June 24 – September 29, 2019. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2019. 252 pp, illustrated in color. ISBN 978-96-8167-048-3.

Review published August 2019

The title of the exhibition might suggest a gathering of crowd-pleasing Old Masters to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Prado. Instead, the curator Alejandro Vergara tackles an intellectually [...] Read More

Early Rubens

By Sasha Suda and Kirk Nickel, eds.

Exh. cat. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, April 6 – September 2, 2019; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 12, 2019 – January 5, 2020. Munich – London – New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2019. 293 pp, illustrated in color. ISBN 978-1-988788-10-4 (Art Gallery of Ontario); ISBN 978-3-7913-5844-4 (DelMonico Books).

Review published August 2019

Peter Paul Rubens towers over seventeenth-century Baroque painting as only Bernini does in sculpture. Both matched artistic productivity, versatility, technique, and genius with supreme talents as [...] Read More

Rubens. The Power of Transformation

By Gerlinde Gruber, Sabine Haag, Stefan Weppelmann and Jochen Sander, eds.

(Exh. cat. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, October 17, 2017 – January 21, 2018; Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. M., February 8 – May 21, 2018.) Munich: Hirmer, 2017. 312 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-7774-2858-1 (English).

Review published August 2018

Rubens. The Power of Transformation at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, was a truly opulent show about the creative processes of Peter Paul Rubens. The KHM [...] Read More

François Ier et l’art des Pays-Bas

By Cécile Scailliérez, ed.

Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris, October 18, 2017 – January 15, 2018. Paris: Somogy éditions d’Art, 2017. 479 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-27572-1304-9.

Review published June 2018

Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuto Cellini, Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio: these are the names are traditionally associated with the patronage of Francis I, who is chiefly [...] Read More

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Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews