Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews