Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection

By Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck

[Cat. Exh., Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 3, 1999 – January 2, 2000; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, January 29 – March 26, 2000; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, December 16 – February 25, 2001]. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 1999. 144 pp, 42 col. illus., 21 b&w illus. SBN 0-9653805-7-2

Review published April 2001

Sheldon and Leena Peck are among several notable Boston-area collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Inspired by Konrad Oberhuber at the Fogg Art Museum in 1978, they have assembled a sizable [...] Read More

Images of Death. Rubens Copies Holbein

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Carl Depauw, eds.

With contributions by Michael Kwakkelstein, Kristin Lohse Belkin and Volker Manuth [Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Rubens, Holbein and the Dance of Death. On the Acquisition of a Sketchbook, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, April 8 – June 12, 2000]. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon; Antwerp: Rubens-huis, 2000. 140 pp, 47 col. pls, 97 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5349-320-4

Review published April 2001

Credit is due to the Stedelijk Prentenkabinet and the Rubenshuis in Antwerp for, respectively, acquiring and exhibiting 44 pen and wash drawings by the young Rubens after the Images of Death, the [...] Read More

Leven na de dood. Gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen

By Truus van Bueren

With contributions by W. C. M. Wüstefeld [Cat. Exh., Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 11 December 1999 _ 26 March 2000]. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. 280 pp, 230 illus., many in col. ISBN 2-503-50942-8

Review published November 2000

In 1994, Truus van Bueren started an investigation into 'Care for the here and the hereafter: Commemorative representations in the (arch)bishopric of Utrecht in the late Middle Ages'. The exhibition [...] Read More

Bruges and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus

By Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, ed.

Cat. Exh. Memlingmuseum_Oud-Sint-Janshospitaal, Brugge. Ghent: Stichting Kunstboek/Ludion 1998. 319 pp, ISBN 90-5544-233-X (paper), 90-5544-234-8 (hardback); also available in Dutch, French and German

Review published November 2000

A second volume to the catalogue appears as: Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, ed., Bruges et la Renaissance. De Memling à Pourbus: Notices [Cat. Exh.] Ghent: Ludion/Flammarion Stichting Kunstboek, 1998. [...] Read More

Two Surveys of Early Netherlandish Painting

By various authors

Review published May 2000

From van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edited by Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Julien [...] Read More

Three Publications on Van Dyck

By various authors

Review published May 2000

Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe, Van Dyck 1599-1641[Exh. Cat.] London: Royal Academy Publications; Antwerp: Antwerpen Open, 1999. 358 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 90-5846-004-5. Martin [...] Read More

Two Publications on the Collection of Henry H. Weldon

By various authors

Review published May 2000

In the Eye of the Beholder: Northern Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon. Forward by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann; catalogue by Nancy T. Minty [Exh. Cat.]. New Orleans: New Orleans [...] Read More