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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

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