Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Mythological Passions: Titian, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez

By Miguel Falomir and Alejandro Vergara with Sheila Barker and Javier Moscoso

Exh. Cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, March 2 – July 4, 2021. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2021. 192 pp, numerous color illus. ISBN 978-84-8480-640-6.

Review published April 2021

It must have been one of the most satisfying and challenging tasks with which a museum curator can be faced. To be presented with six of the finest pictures ever executed, namely Titian’s poesie [...] Read More

Leiden circa 1630. Rembrandt Emerges

By Jacquelyn N. Coutré, ed., with contributions by Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Stephanie S. Dickey, Piet Bakker, and Janet M. Brooke

Exh. Cat. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, August 24 – December 1, 2019; The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, March 7 – September 27, 2020; The McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, December 5, 2020 – February 21, 2021; The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, March 13 – May 30, 2021. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2019. 359 pp, 205 illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-1-55339-419-8. In English and French.

Review published September 2020

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre joined the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death (or immortality, if you will) with a traveling exhibition combining collection works and loans [...] Read More

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

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