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17th-Century Flemish

Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House

By Tico Seifert (curator)

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, November 9, 2024 – February 23, 2025.

Exh. cat. by Charles Noble, Gregory Rubinstein and Christian Tico Seifert. Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, 2024. 120 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 9781911054672.

Review published September 2025

After a period of relative quiet, the last few years have seen a flurry of exhibitions of Northern European drawings across Britain, with more expected in 2026. These exhibitions have showcased the [...] Read More

Rubens’s Workshop

By Alejandro Vergara (curator)

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, October 15, 2024 – February 16, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Alejandro Vergara. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2024. 168 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-84-8480-622-6.

Review published September 2025

This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Prado between October 2024 and February 2025. It was organized by the Curator of Flemish paintings at the Museum, Alejandro Vergara, and is the [...] Read More

Turning Heads (Krasse Koppen): Rubens, Rembrandt and (en) Vermeer

By Nico Van Hout, Koen Bulckens, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Lizzie Marx, and Friederike Schütt, with Vicki Bruce & Andy Young, Sara de Bosschere, Cian McLoughlin, Elvis Pompilio, and Stephan Vanfleteren.

Exh. cat. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 20, 2023 – January 21, 2024; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 24 – May 26, 2024. Antwerp: Hannibal Books and KMSKA, 2023. 191 pp, 136 color illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 664 9.
English and Dutch editions (English reviewed here)

Review published September 2025

As psychologists have long known, there is no visual experience more powerful than coming face-to-face with another human being. It is not surprising, then, that human physiognomy has occupied artists [...] Read More

Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp: Art and Political Economy in an Age of Religious Conflict. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 67)

By Adam Sammut

Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. 526 pp, incl. 269 col. + b& illus. ISBN 978-90-04-27637-6 (hardback); 978-90-04-27638-3 (e-book).

Review published June 2025

This book is the revised publication of a PhD thesis, defended by the author in 2021 at the University of York. Actually, it is about two very important painting commissions for the decoration of [...] Read More

The Medici Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIV)

By Nils Büttner

London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2023. Vol. 1: 505 pp; Vol. 2: 294 pp, 268 illus. ISBN 978-1-915487-27-8. 2 vols.

Review published April 2025

The Author’s Preface to Nils Büttner’s study of the Medici Series in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the complete catalogue of Rubens’s oeuvre, conveys within its first two paragraphs the scope [...] Read More

Une odyssée baroque. Les du Quesnoy et la sculpture à Bruxelles au XVIIe siècle.

By Géraldine Patigny

With contributions by Camille De Clercq, Judy De Roy and Laurent Fontaine (Scientia Artis, 20). Brussels: Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, 2024. 485 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-2-930054-45-2 (French).

Review published January 2025

A familiar narrative around the Brussels sculptor François du Quesnoy (1597-1643), known in Rome as il Fiammingo, goes something like this: despite being Flemish by birth, suffering various personal [...] Read More

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