Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Rubens in Private: The Master Portrays his Family

By Ben van Beneden, ed.

[Cat. exh. The Rubenshuis, Antwerp, March 28 – June 28, 2015.] London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 280 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-0-500-09396-2

Review published November 2015

This beautifully produced and much anticipated book is the companion to the first-ever exhibition focusing on the more private side of Rubens’s genius – a selection of self-portraits and portraits of [...] Read More

Liechtentein Museum Vienna: The Hohenbuchau Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Golden Age

By Peter C. Sutton

Ed. by Johann Kräftner. [Exhibition “Northern Baroque Splendor. The Hohenbuchau Collection from the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, The Princely Collections, Vienna,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, September 20, 2014 – April 12, 2015; Cincinnati Art Museum, June 27 – September 20, 2015, as “Rubens to Ruisdael,” with the same subtitle.] Vienna: Liechtenstein Museum and Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2011. 494 pp, profuse illus. ISBN 978-85033-572-0 (English edition)

Review published April 2015

The splendid exhibition now at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (and this summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum), presents sixty-four of the ninety-seven paintings that are published in Peter [...] Read More

Deaf, Dumb & Brilliant: Johannes Thopas Master Draughtsman

By Rudi Ekkart

[Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, March 13 – June 22, 2014; Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, July 12 – October 5, 2014.] London: Paul Holberton Publishing 2014. 200 pp., 166 illus., some in color. ISBN 978-1-907372-67-4

Review published November 2014

Books that focus attention on unheralded masters of talent and historical significance are rarities these days. For that reason alone, Rudi Ekkart’s Deaf, Dumb & Brilliant deserves special notice. [...] Read More

Jordaens 1593-1678. La Gloire d’Anvers

By Alexis Merle du Bourg, ed.

With contributions by Joost Vander Auwera and Irene Schaudies. [Cat. exh. Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, September 19, 2013 – January 19, 2014.] Paris: Éditions Paris Musées, distributed by UD-Union, 2013. 334 pp, 138 b&w and color illus. ISBN 978-2-7596-0231-5

Review published November 2014

All those fortunate enough to have visited the wonderful Jordaens exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, will agree that its impressive design formed an important statement in the ongoing reappraisal [...] Read More

Un Allemand à la cour de Louis XIV. De Dürer à Van Dyck, la collection nordique d’Everhard Jabach

By Blaise Ducos and Olivia Savatier Sjöholm, eds.

[Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, June 20 – September 16, 2013.] Paris: Musée du Louvre 2013. 208 pp, 86 col. pls. ISBN 978-2-84741-274-0

Review published November 2014

Among the selection of magnificent drawings by Northern artists featuring Dürer (6), Hans Holbein the Younger (2), Paul Bril (5), Peter Paul Rubens (2 copies, 4 retouched anon. Italian) and Anthony [...] Read More

Two New Studies on Dürer

By various authors

Review published April 2014

Stephanie Buck and Stephanie Porras, The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure. [Cat. exh. Courtauld Gallery, London, October 17, 2013 – January 12, 2014.] London: Courtauld Gallery 2013. 287 pp, fully [...] Read More

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