Book Reviews

Michaelina Wautier, Malerin

By Gerline Gruber, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, and Julien Domercq. Stuttgart,

Gerlinde Gruber (curator)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, September 30, 2025 – February 22, 2026; London, Royal Academy of Arts, March 27, 2026 – June 21, 2026

Exh. cat. by Gerline Gruber, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, and Julien Domercq. Stuttgart, Belser, 2025. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1915815200.

Review published December 2025

Michaelina Wautier, Malerin presented some true delights for the specialist visitor familiar with the oeuvre of an artist little known before the groundbreaking Antwerp exhibition of her work in 2018. [...] Read More

The Little Street: The Neighborhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Culture

By Linda Stone-Ferrier

New Haven, CT – London, Yale University Press, 2022. 208 pp, 98 color and 17 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0300259117.

Review published December 2025

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

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry

By Mathieu Deldicque and Marie-Pierre Dion (curators)

Château de Chantilly, June 7 – October 5, 2025.
Exh. cat. ed. by Mathieu Deldicque, English edition: Antwerp: Hannibal Books, 2025. 416 pp. ISBN-13: 978-9464941920 (distributed in the U.S. by Rizzoli). French edition: In Fine éditions d'art; Musée Condé, 2025. 496 pp, 460 color illus. EAN/ISBN: 978-2382032237.

Review published November 2025

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.

By Erik Fischer, Ernst Jonas Bencard, and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen

Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2025.
507 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-87-7597-407-8.

Review published October 2025

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

By Tico Seifert (curator)

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, November 9, 2024 – February 23, 2025.

Exh. cat. by Charles Noble, Gregory Rubinstein and Christian Tico Seifert. Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, 2024. 120 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 9781911054672.

Review published September 2025

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

By Alejandro Vergara (curator)

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, October 15, 2024 – February 16, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Alejandro Vergara. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2024. 168 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-84-8480-622-6.

Review published September 2025

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

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