Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678)

By Christi M. Klinkert and Yvonne Bleyerveld, eds.

Cat. exh. Stedlijk Museum, Alkmaar, September 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017. Zwolle: Waanders, 2016. 208 pp, 150 colored illus. ISBN 978-94-6262-108-4.

Review published October 2017

Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More

Hercules Segers: Painter Etcher

By Huigen Leeflang and Pieter Roelofs, eds.

Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 7, 2016 – January 8, 2017; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 13 – May 21, 2017. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2016. 700 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6208-342-4.

Review published September 2017

Hercules Segers: Painter, Etcher does much to advance our understanding of an artist whose work is often described as enigmatic and – as the accompanying exhibition calls it – ‘mysterious.’ Since the [...] Read More

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