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
17th-Century Flemish
Rubens’s Workshop
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
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)
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)
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.
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