Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

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

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews