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February 2012: Art in Northern Europe
Editorial
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