Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Jordaens 1593-1678. La Gloire d’Anvers

By Alexis Merle du Bourg, ed.

With contributions by Joost Vander Auwera and Irene Schaudies. Cat. exh. Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, September 19, 2013 – January 19, 2014. Paris: Éditions Paris Musées, distributed by UD-Union, 2013. 334 pp, 138 b&w and color illus. ISBN 978-2-7596-0231-5

Review published November 2014

All those fortunate enough to have visited the wonderful Jordaens exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, will agree that its impressive design formed an important statement in the ongoing reappraisal [...] Read More

Un Allemand à la cour de Louis XIV. De Dürer à Van Dyck, la collection nordique d’Everhard Jabach

By Blaise Ducos and Olivia Savatier Sjöholm, eds.

Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, June 20 – September 16, 2013. Paris: Musée du Louvre 2013. 208 pp, 86 col. pls. ISBN 978-2-84741-274-0

Review published November 2014

Among the selection of magnificent drawings by Northern artists featuring Dürer (6), Hans Holbein the Younger (2), Paul Bril (5), Peter Paul Rubens (2 copies, 4 retouched anon. Italian) and Anthony [...] Read More

Two New Studies on Dürer

By various authors

Review published April 2014

Stephanie Buck and Stephanie Porras, The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure. Cat. exh. Courtauld Gallery, London, October 17, 2013 – January 12, 2014. London: Courtauld Gallery 2013. 287 pp, fully [...] Read More

Two Publications on Frans Hals

By various authors

Review published November 2013

Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and The Market in Early Modernity(Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press [...] Read More

Jordaens and the Antique

By Joost Vander Auwera and Irene Schaudies, eds.

Cat. exh. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, October 12, 2012 – January 27, 2013; Fridericianum, Museumslandschaft Hessen, Kassel, March 1 – June 16, 2013. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. 320 pp, 229 color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-6153-675-8

Review published November 2013

Jordaens and the Antique, organized twenty years after the last large scale monographic exhibition on the artist, then held in Antwerp, is a co-operation between the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews