The life and career of Peter Paul Rubens were defined by his foreign travels, both artistic and diplomatic. In a near-constant to and fro across Europe, two seemingly essential journeys and exchanges [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Rubens Garden: A Masterpiece in Bloom / Rubens’ Tuin: Een meesterwerk in bloei.
This small book by Klara Alen, research curator of the historical garden of the Rubenshuis, was published in 2024 to mark the renovation and redesign of Rubens's garden, located in the heart of [...] Read More
Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age.
Marsely Kehoe begins her recent monograph, Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture, with two big claims: that the Dutch Republic’s global reach was key to the cultural as well as the [...] Read More
Aemulatio Italorum. La reception culturelle des gravures d’Andrea Mantegna dans l’art germanique au temps d’Albrecht Dürer.
Albrecht Dürer’s drawings of Andrea Mantegna’s engravings Bacchanal with Silenus and the right half of Battle of the Sea Gods, both dated 1494, hold an important place in the long history of artistic [...] Read More
Mary, Mother of God. Devotion and Doctrine in the Visual Arts, 1450-1700.
Numerous books survey with images the history of concepts about the Virgin Mary.[1] Yet the editors of this probing new volume have addressed both Marian theology as a source for visual topics in [...] Read More
Jan van Eyck within His Art
Reaktion Books’ Renaissance Lives series, which includes Alfred Acres’s Jan van Eyck within His Art, aims to “explore and illustrate the life histories and achievements of significant artists, [...] Read More