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
17th-Century Flemish
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
The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More
Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens and the Arts of Persuasion; Jesuit Art (Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies)
The interest in the Society of Jesus has exploded in the last few decades. Jesuit art and religious culture have been the subjects of a remarkable number of books, exhibition catalogues, and [...] Read More
Thinking Through Rubens. Selected Studies by Arnout Balis
This memorial volume commemorates the accomplishments – many of them not visible in publications – of a leading Rubens scholar of his generation: Arnout Balis. Collecting his published articles around [...] Read More