For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
History of Art & 17th Century

December 2017 Issue

Laura Freeman

He Made Masterpieces with Manure

Traces of Vermeer

By Jane Jelley

July 2017 Issue

Philip Mansel

State of the Arts

The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

By Wolf Burchard

November 2015 Issue

Jerry Brotton

Delft Touches

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

By Laura J Snyder

August 2015 Issue

Jan Morris

Though the Open Door

Everything Is Happening: Journey into a Painting

By Michael Jacobs

July 2004 Issue

Paul Johnson

Brushing Up Against The Best

Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings

By Susan J Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar, Horst Vey

July 2012 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Lines of Beauty

Titian: His Life

By Sheila Hale

December 2012 Issue

Lisa Jardine

Tricks of the Eye

Mr Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age

By Dror Wahrman

March 2013 Issue

Tim Blanning

Patriot Frames

The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600–1850

By Anthony D Smith

November 2013 Issue

Tim Harris

Picturing Power

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660–1714

By Kevin Sharpe

November 2013 Issue

Jerry Brotton

Sale of the Century

The King’s Pictures

By Francis Haskell