Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca. 1475-1533). De Renaissance in Amsterdam en Alkmaar

By Daantje Meuwissen

With contributions by Peter van den Brink et al. Cat. exh. Amsterdam Museum; Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar; Sint Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, March 15 – June 29, 2014. Zwolle: Waanders, 2014. 319 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-94-91196-96-6

Review published November 2016

In northern Europe, the early sixteenth-century art world was crowded with artists of extraordinary talent: Jan Gossart, Bernaert van Orley, and Lucas van Leyden in the Low Countries, as well as [...] Read More

2016 Publications on Hieronymus Bosch

By various authors

Review published November 2016

Matthijs Ilsink and Jos Koldeweij, Hieronymus Bosch, Visions of Genius. Cat. exh. Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, February 13 – May 8, 2016. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, distributed by Yale [...] Read More

Fantastische Welten. Albrecht Altdorfer und das Expressive in der Kunst um 1500

By Stefan Roller and Jochen Sander

Cat. exh. Städel Museum and Liebighaus, Frankfurt, November 5, 2014 – February 8, 2015; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 17 – June 14, 2015; in conjunction with the University of Leipzig. Munich: Hirmer 2014. 288 pp, 255 color illus. ISBN 978-3-777-42266-4

Review published April 2016

I always thought that the term "expressive" was a modernist or twentieth-century concept, in which the depiction of figure types and formal elements conjured up a peculiar state of mind or conveyed [...] Read More

Emotions. Pain and Pleasure in Dutch Painting of the Golden Age

By Gary Schwartz, with contributions by Ann Demeester and Machiel Keestra

Cat. exh. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, October 11 – February 15, 2015. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2014. 152 pp, 80 col. illus. ISBN 978-94-6208-170-3.

Review published November 2015

The 2010 issue of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, edited by Stephanie Dickey and Herman Roodenburg and devoted to ‘The Passions in the Arts of the Netherlands’ and several other recent [...] Read More

Two Exhibition Catalogs on Rembrandt

By various authors

Review published November 2015

Jonathan Bikker and Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie E. Wieseman and Erik Hinterding, with contributions by Marijn Schapelhouman and Anna Krekeler. Editorial Consultant Christopher White, Rembrandt: The [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews