Among the extensive holdings of Old Master drawings owned by the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, the significant collection of drawings by the great Antwerp masters Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, and Anthonie van Dyck stand out as absolute highlights. This generously illustrated publication examines 70 of their important drawings, discussing not only the significance of these works, but also their provenance, attribution, and dating. It also helps to put the work in context by considering the work of a variety of contemporaries on the 17th-century Flemish scene, many of whom were influenced directly by the work of these masters, as well as by including essays on a variety of topics of art and culture in Antwerp. This book will be a major contribution to the study of 17th-century Northern European art.
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Among the superb holdings of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is an impressive array of 17th-century Flemish drawings. This volume serves not only to provide visual and scholarly documentation for the total collection but also as a handsome exhibition catalog for the most significant of these works. The major sections of the catalog are given over to the drawings of Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and some of the more notable artists of the school. The entries go beyond most books of this sort in the lavish and welcome addition of excellent collateral visual documentation. The effect of this is to enable the user to grasp instantly the connection of the drawing to finished works or inspiring sources. Adequate articulations of formal values and stylistic concerns are overwhelmed, at times, by the preoccupation with visual connections. A mixed bag of six brief, scholarly essays attempts to contextualize the drawings; another section more modestly illustrates and documents the collection's less significant graphic material. A necessary acquisition only for libraries seriously concerned with old master drawings. Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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