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Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

By Lloyd DeWitt, ed.

With a preface by Seymour Slive and contributions by Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, Franziska Gottwald, George S. Keyes, Shelley Perlove, Larry Silver, Ken Sutherland and Mark Tucker. Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris, April 21 - July 18, 2011; Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 3 - October 30, 2011; Detroit Institute of Arts, November 20, 2011 - February 12, 2012. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011. 271 pp, 213 color and 17 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-87633-227-6

Review published April 2012

This exhibition centers on the production by Rembrandt and his workshop of a group of small paintings representing the head of Christ. The likely dates are bounded by an apparent relationship to the [...] Read More

Rembrandt in America. Collecting and Connoisseurship

By George S. Keyes, Tom R. Rassieur, and Dennis P. Weller, in collaboration with Jon L. Seydl

Cat. exh. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, November 1, 2011 - February 1, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 19 - May 28, 2012; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 24 - September 16, 2012. New York: SkiraRizzoli, 2011. 223 pp, 50 large color plates, over 93 small color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-3685-7

Review published April 2012

A collaboration between the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue make an impressive showing [...] Read More

Palazzo Rubens. The Master as Architect

By Barbara Uppenkamp and Ben van Beneden, with a contribution by Piet Lombaerde

Cat. exh. Antwerp, Rubenshuis, September 10 – December 11, 2011. Antwerp: Rubenshuis, in association with Mercatorfonds, Brussels, 2011. 175 pp, 243 color illus. ISBN 978-90-6153-116-6

Review published April 2012

It has now become part of the standard service for visitors to exhibitions to receive, free of charge, a small guidebook, which is usually available in a number of languages. Such booklets have the [...] Read More

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

By Susan Dackerman, ed.

Cat. exh. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, September 6 -December 11, 2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 17 - April 8, 2012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press. 442pp, 102 illustrated entries. ISBN 978-0-300-17107-5

Review published November 2011

Susan Dackerman has done it again. Her first major print exhibition dropped jaws and opened eyes to an early graphic phenomenon known only partially but originally widespread: Painted Prints [...] Read More

Two Publications on Rembrandt Drawings

By various authors
Review published April 2011

Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 260 pp, 197 color, 46 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-89236-976-8. Holm Bevers, Lee Hendrix, William W. Robinson, Peter [...] Read More

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance: The Complete Works

By Maryan W. Ainsworth

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven/ London: Yale University Press, 2010. xii, 484 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-1-58839-398-2; ISBN 978-0-300-16657-6

Review published April 2011

In the history of artistic exchange between northern and southern Europe, Jan Gossart occupies a singular place. The first Netherlandish artist known to have drawn the antiquities of Rome, Gossart has [...] Read More

Two Publications on Romeyn de Hooghe

By various authors
Review published November 2010

Henk van Nierop, Ellen Gravowsky, Anouk Janssen (eds.), Romeyn de Hooghe: De verbeelding van de late Gouden Eeuw. With introductory essay by Henk van Nierop and contributions by Anna de Haas, Henk van [...] Read More

Three Publications on Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz

By Reinhold Baumstark and various authors
Review published November 2010

Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder. Vol. I: Sammler und Mäzen. Edited by Reinhold Baumstark with contributions by Reinhold Baumstark, Marcus Dekiert, Hubert Glaser, Oliver Kase and Christian Quaeitzsch. [...] Read More

Two Publications on Dutch Cityscapes

By various authors
Review published April 2010

Ariane van Suchtelen and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age. Exh. cat. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 11, 2008 – January 11, 2009; National [...] Read More

Black is Beautiful. Rubens to Dumas

By Elmer Kolfin and Esther Schreuder (eds.)

Cat. exh. De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam, July 26 – October 26, 2008. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2008, 388 pp (8 essays), 188 illus., mostly color. ISBN 978-90-400-8497-3 (English, hb); 978-90-400-8465-2 (pb); 978-90-400-8496-6 (Dutch, hb); 978-90-400-8464-5 (pb)

Review published April 2010

In the summer of 2008, a fascinating exhibition about the representation of black people by Dutch and Flemish artists, from late medieval to modern times, was held at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The [...] Read More

The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden

By Stephan Kemperdick and Jochen Sander (eds.)

With essays by Bastian Eclercy, Stephan Kemperdick, Peter Klein, Antje-Fee Köllermann, and Jochen Sander. Cat. exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 21, 2008 – February 22, 2009; Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, March 20 – June 21, 2009. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009. 404 pp, 203 illus. ISBN 978-3-7757-2259-9 (English); 978-3-7757-2258-2 (German)

Review published November 2009

Who doesn't love a great mystery? More important, who doesn't love trying to solve one? This is precisely what Stephan Kemperdick and Jochen Sander have set out to do in the exhibition "Der Meister [...] Read More