For People Who Devour Books

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

July 2023 Issue

Norma Clarke

Blast from the Past

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art & Life & Sudden Death

By Laura Cumming

Michael Prodger

Anatomist of the Night

Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science

By Julian Bell

October 2022 Issue

Robin Simon

Smile & Substance

The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World

By Steven Nadler

November 2019 Issue

David Gelber

He Had a Light Touch

Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer

By Anita Jansen (ed)

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