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
16th Century
Fantasmagorie. Streghe, demoni e tentazioni nell’arte fiamminga e olandese del Seicento
The European fascination with the various manifestations of witches, demons and evil temptations seems endless; it generated a flourishing production of imagery that was supported by literary culture. [...] Read More
From Scribble to Cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections
In 1548, early in his printing career, Christophe Plantin left Paris for the greater opportunities and resources of Antwerp. There, he established one of the leading printmaking and publishing houses [...] Read More
Jan Massys. Renaissance Painter of Flemish Female Beauty.
Genoa presents something of a wild card in the study of Netherlandish artists. Already in the 1520s, Joos van Cleve’s altarpieces were variously commissioned for there: San Donato, Santa Maria della [...] Read More
Melchior Lorck. Facts Fiction Interpretation.
Some artists fall between stools in modern scholarship, because their country of origin no longer corresponds to contemporary boundaries, or else because their movements across boundaries fail to [...] Read More
Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History)
In the course of his long and distinguished career, Larry Silver has published twelve books on Northern Renaissance art. His extraordinary productivity in this field is complemented by additional [...] Read More