Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

Two Publications on Gabriel Metsu and Eglon van der Neer

By various authors

Review published November 2011

Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Pieter Roelofs and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., with contributions by Wayne E. Franits, E. Melanie Gifford, Bianca M. du Mortier, Pieter Roelofs, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Linda [...] Read More

Exhibition Catalogs on Joos van Cleve and Lucas van Leyden

By various authors

Review published November 2011

Peter van den Brink, in collaboration with Alice Taatgen and Heinrich Becker, Joos van Cleve: Leonardo des Nordens. Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 17 – June 26, 2011. Stuttgart: [...] Read More

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

By Susan Dackerman, ed.

Cat. exh. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, September 6 -December 11, 2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 17 - April 8, 2012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press. 442pp, 102 illustrated entries. ISBN 978-0-300-17107-5

Review published November 2011

Susan Dackerman has done it again. Her first major print exhibition dropped jaws and opened eyes to an early graphic phenomenon known only partially but originally widespread: Painted Prints [...] Read More

Two Publications on Rembrandt Drawings

By various authors

Review published April 2011

Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 260 pp, 197 color, 46 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-89236-976-8. Holm Bevers, Lee Hendrix, William W. Robinson, Peter [...] Read More

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance: The Complete Works

By Maryan W. Ainsworth

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven/ London: Yale University Press, 2010. xii, 484 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-1-58839-398-2; ISBN 978-0-300-16657-6

Review published April 2011

In the history of artistic exchange between northern and southern Europe, Jan Gossart occupies a singular place. The first Netherlandish artist known to have drawn the antiquities of Rome, Gossart has [...] Read More

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