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Connoisseurship and the Knowledge of Art, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 69, 2019

By H. Perry Chapman, Thijs Weststeijn, and Dulcia Meijers, eds.

Leiden: Brill, 2019. 372 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-40916-3.

Review published March 2020

Half a century ago, when I was a graduate student, art scholarship largely boiled down to connoisseurship; even iconography was considered over-interpretive (and the case can still be made that within [...] Read More

Condition: The Ageing of Art

By Paul Taylor

London: Paul Holberton, 2015. 264 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 978-190-7372 79-7

Review published April 2017

Paul Taylor’s Condition: The Ageing of Art provides an invaluable introduction to a topic often overlooked by art historians: how the chemistry of materials collides with the caprices of time, and how [...] Read More

Inganno. The Art of Deception. Imitation, Reception, and Deceit in Early Modern Art

By Sharon Gregory and Sally Anne Hickson, eds

Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate 2012. 204 pp, 21 b & w illus. ISBN 978-1-4094-3149-7

Review published April 2014

The Italian in its title (inganno means "deception") ought to give away the fact that this book is really not intended for HNA members, despite its otherwise neutral designated subject of "early [...] Read More

“Nach dem Leben und aus der Phantasie”. Niederländische Zeichnungen vom 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert aus dem Städelschen Kunstinstitut

By Annette Strech with Jutta Schütt, Martin Sonnabend, and Margaret Stuffmann

[Cat. exh. Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt, February 24 – May 14, 2000]. Frankfurt: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 2000

Review published November 2001

Frankfurt’s Städel has a distinguished history, and it is sensibly offering its own treasures to the public in a series of exhibitions of the permanent collection, including remarkable holdings in [...] Read More

Old Master Prints and Drawings, a Guide to Preservation and Conservation

By Carlo James, ed.

Transl. by Marjorie Cohn. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997; distributed by the University of Michigan Press. Revised and translated edition of Manuale per la conservazione e il restauro di desegni e stampi antichi (Florence: Leo S. Olshki, 1991). XV + 319 pp, 54 col. plates, 122 figures, 60 diagrams, ISBN 90-5356-243-5

Review published November 2001

This beautifully produced book is packed with information that will be of great interest and utility to anyone involved with old prints and drawings. Far from being a narrowly prescriptive manual, the [...] Read More

Zeichnungen von Meisterhand. Die Sammlung Uffenbach aus der Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen

By Gerd Unverfehrt (ed.)

[Cat. Exh. Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz; Kunstsammlung der Universität, Göttingen; Landesmuseum, Oldenburg]. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. 275 pp; all 100 catalogue entries in colour with b&w comparative illustrations. ISBN 3-525-47000-2 and 3-525-47002-9 (exhibition edition)

Review published April 2001

In 1763 the Frankfurt patrician Johann Friedrich Arman Uffenbach bequeathed his collection of books, instruments, about ten thousand prints, including an impressive Rembrandt collection, and one [...] Read More

Gärten und Höfe der Rubenszeit im Spiegel der Malerfamilie Brueghel und der Künstler um Peter Paul Rubens

By Ursula Härting (ed.)

[Cat. Exh., Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, October 15, 2000 – January 14, 2001; Landesmuseum, Mainz, March 4 – June 24, 2001]. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2000. 467pp, generously illustrated, ISBN 3-7774-8890-9

Review published April 2001

The transitory nature of gardens certainly does not make them the most obvious subject for a museum exhibition, and indeed many would be hard put to envisage such an undertaking. Those who visit the [...] Read More

Gothic Tombs of Kinship in France, the Low Countries, and England

By Anne McGee Morganstern

With an Appendix on the Heraldry of the Crouchback Tomb in Westminster Abbey by John A. Goodall, FSA, FRNS. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. 252 pp, 4 colour and 106 b&wplat es, ISBN 0-271-01859-3

Review published April 2001

Funerals are for the living, not the dead, conventional wisdom tells us. Anne Morganstern’s book reminds us that funeral monuments are for the living, too. This book identifies and interprets a [...] Read More

Le château de Boussu (Études et Documents, Monuments et Sites, 8.)

By Krista De Jonge and Marcel Capouillez, eds.

Namur: Ministère de la Région wallonne, 1998. 207 pp, 234 illus. in colour and b&w, ISBN 2-87401-040-5

Review published April 2001

Though little known today, Netherlandish châteaux of the Renaissance once enjoyed a formidable reputation, serving as centres of aristocratic culture and illustrious patronage. With Charles V an [...] Read More

Three Volumes New Hollstein: Schnitzer, Groeningen, Van Doetecum

By various authors
Review published April 2001

Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700; volume XLVI: Johann Schnitzer to Lucas Schnitzer. Compiled by Ursula Mielke, edited by Tilman Falk. Rotterdam: Sound and Vision [...] Read More

Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection

By Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Taverner Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 488 pp, 76 col. 312 b&w illus. ISBN 0-87099-918-4

Review published April 2001

One of sixteen catalogues of the extensive Lehman collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and Islamic and Asian art, this volume covers the 153 European drawings that were brought together [...] Read More

Kunst voor de Markt/Art for the Market, 1500-1700 (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 50, 1999)

By Reindert Falkenburg, Jan de Jong, Dulcia Meijers, Bart Ramakers, Mariët Westermann (eds.)

Zwolle: Uitgeverij Waanders, 2000. 280 pp, 91 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9420-9

Review published November 2000

When the author of the first history of Netherlandish art, Karel van Mander, looked back on the origins of his subject, he would note that "in the time of the two Van Eycks, the city of Bruges was [...] Read More

Hof-, Staats- en Stadsceremonies/Court, State and City Ceremonies (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 49, 1998)

By Mark A. Meadow (ed.

Zwolle: Uitgeverij Waanders, 1998. 320 pp, 100 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9266-4

Review published November 2000

The Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek stands apart from the majority of art history periodicals by its policy of devising every issue around a single theme. Recent volumes devoted to a single [...] Read More

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