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A visit to Rotterdam

A new two-year-long display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Article (7)

From Master Wilhelm to Master Wilhelm: the identity of the Cologne Master of St Veronica

By Stephan Kemperdick

Archival records reveal the identity of the Cologne Master of St Veronica as ‘Master Wilhelm’.

The Scottish painter Adam de Colone identified as the Dutch painter Adam de Colonia

By Rudi Ekkart

This article establishes that the Scottish artist Adam de Colone and the Dutch painter Adam de Colonia are in fact one and the same person.

A pair of paintings by Caesar van Everdingen

By Paul Huys Janssen

The provenance and subject-matter of a rediscovered pair of paintings, Bacchus and Bacchantes and Offering to Venus (c.1655–60), by Caesar van Everdingen.

‘Still life of a bouquet in the making’ by Dirck de Bray: a new acquisition at the Mauritshuis, The Hague

By Emilie Gordenker

The Mauritshuis’s recent acquisition of Dirck de Bray’s Still life of a bouquet in the making (1674).

Carel Fabritius in eighteenth-century Paris

By Sophie Raux

This article establishes, among other things, that Carel Fabritius’s Mercury and Argus (c.1645–47; Los Angeles County Museum of Art) was in the collection of François Boucher, where it was seen by Fragonard.

A new catalogue of Friedrich’s drawings and watercolours

Reviewed by Armin Kunz

A new catalogue of Friedrich’s drawings and watercolours

Weave matching and dating of Van Gogh’s paintings: an interdisciplinary approach

By Louis van Tilborgh, Teio Meedendorp, Ella Hendricks, Don H. Johnson, C. Richard, Jr. Johnson and Robert G. Erdmann

Using new weave matching techniques, this article identifies aligned pieces of canvas from the rolls used by Van Gogh. 

Book Review (12)

Rembrandt and his Circle. Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection

Reviewed by Gregory Rubinstein

Bosch en Bruegel als Bosch; Kunst over kunst bij Pieter Bruegel (c.1528–1569) en Jheronimus Bosch (c.1450–1516)

Reviewed by Manfred Sellink

Jan Rombouts. The Discovery of an Early Sixteenth-Century Master in Louvain

Reviewed by Mark Evans

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI: Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. German and Netherlandish Artists

Reviewed by Karolien de Clippel

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI: Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. 1. Raphael and his school

Reviewed by Karolien de Clippel

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI: Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. 2. Titian and North Italian art

Reviewed by Karolien de Clippel

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI: Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. 3. Artists working in Central Italy and France

Reviewed by Karolien de Clippel

Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunst­halle Kupferstichkabinett, Band 3: Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450–1850

Reviewed by Michiel C. Plomp

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI–XVIII Centuries. Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX–XX Centuries

Reviewed by Christian Tico Seifert

Segeln, was das Zeug hält. Niederländ­ische Gemälde des Goldenen Zeitalters

Reviewed by Erik Spaans

How to create beauty. De Lairesse on the theory and practice of making art

Reviewed by Xander van Eck

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1906–1996

Reviewed by Daniel Herrmann

Exhibition Review (14)

Eighteenth-century Verona. Verona

Reviewed by Xavier F. Salomon

Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921. New York and Washington

Reviewed by Lewis Kachur

Rembrandt in America. Raleigh, Cleveland and Minneapolis

Reviewed by Walter Liedtke

Leonardo da Vinci. London

Reviewed by Charles Robertson

The First Actresses. London

Reviewed by Kate Retford

The Mystery of Appearance. London

Reviewed by Toby Treves

Alice in Wonderland. Liverpool, Rovereto and Hamburg

Reviewed by Marina Vaizey

Art and dance. Paris

Reviewed by Anne Blood

Boilly. Lille

Reviewed by Philippe Bordes

Abraham Bloemaert. Utrecht and Schwerin

Reviewed by Friso Lammertse

Niclaus Gerhaert. Frankfurt am Main and Strasbourg

Reviewed by Julien Chapuis

Max Beckmann. Frankfurt

Reviewed by Sean Rainbird

Max Beckmann. Basel

Reviewed by Sean Rainbird

Max Beckmann. Leipzig

Reviewed by Sean Rainbird

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