Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

By Joaneath Spicer, ed.

Cat. exh. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, October 14, 2012 – January 21, 2013; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, February 16 – June 9, 2013. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012. 144 pp, 54 illus., most color, 80 thumbnails. ISBN 978-0-911886-78-8

Review published April 2013

Scholarship remains cumulative. The bracing ripple effects of resuming the project on The Image of the Black in Western Art are still being felt. First some of the main contributors to the crucial [...] Read More

Dürer and Beyond. Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700

By Stijn Alsteens and Freyda Spira, eds.

With contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Dirk H. Breiding, George R. Goldner, Guido Messling, Marjorie Shelley and Joshua P. Waterman. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 3 – September 3, 2012. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press 2012. xvi, 256 pp, 318 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-58839-451-4

Review published April 2013

Over the past two decades and under the leadership of George Goldner, the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints has built up its holdings in areas that were previously [...] Read More

The Early Dürer

By Daniel Hess and Thomas Eser, eds.

Cat. exh. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24 – September 2, 2012. Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums; London/NewYork: Thames and Hudson, 2012. 604 pp, 380+ illus., most in color. ISBN 978-0-50097-037-9

Review published November 2012

After four decades of professional study, I realize that exhibitions are cyclical, coming around every generation, whether for artists at the Museum of Modern Art (Pollock, Bonnard) or leading old [...] Read More

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

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Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews