Volume 48, Number 20 · December 20, 2001
From Florence to Las Vegas
By James Fenton
Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's 'Ginevra de' Benci' and Renaissance Portraits of Women
Catalog of the exhibition edited by David Alan Brown
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,September 30, 2001–January 6, 2002.
National Gallery of Art/Princeton University Press, 236 pp., $55.00; $35.00 (paper)
Aelbert Cuyp
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 7, 2001–January 13, 2002.
National Gallery of Art, 320 pp., $65.00; $35.00 (paper)
The Art of the Motorcycle
Catalog of the exhibition published by the Guggenheim Las Vegas
an exhibition at the Guggenheim Las Vegas, Fall 2001.
The Guggenheim Las Vegas, 447 pp., $65.00; $45.00 (paper)
Masterpieces and Master Collectors
Catalog of the exhibition published by the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
an exhibition at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum,Las Vegas, September 16, 2001–March 17, 2002.
212 pp., $55.00; $35.00 (paper)
The two admirable shows currently at the National Gallery in Washington present works of art which, highly regarded though they might be today, were once held in even greater esteem. The landscapes of Aelbert Cuyp were admired and collected in the centuries after his death, until Holland was denuded of them. Treasured in English country houses, exhibited in London, they spoke directly and forcibly to painters of the nineteenth century, such as Constable and Turner. They were among the supreme representatives of their genre.
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