Vermeer’s so-called “Little Street”, which gives this striking book its name and graces its cover, depicts fragments of two housefronts linked by adjoining courtyards. Rooftops cluster in the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry
The Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated exhibit of the year. The famous manuscript has [...] Read More
Melchior Lorck. Catalogue Raisonné. Volume Five, Part Two.
In music history the curse of completing a ninth symphony as a harbinger of a death plagued composers after Beethoven, including Schubert, Bruckner, Dvorak, and Mahler. Working on the earliest Danish [...] Read More
Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House
After a period of relative quiet, the last few years have seen a flurry of exhibitions of Northern European drawings across Britain, with more expected in 2026. These exhibitions have showcased the [...] Read More
Rubens’s Workshop
This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Prado between October 2024 and February 2025. It was organized by the Curator of Flemish paintings at the Museum, Alejandro Vergara, and is the [...] Read More
The Monument’s End. Public Art and the Modern Republic
Monuments are surprisingly shaky. Usually built to last and designed to convey an unambiguous message, the monument’s capacity to provoke responses that range from boredom to hatred creates the [...] Read More