This book is as monumental and rich as the church that is its subject. In fact, rather than a study of a building, it is a wide-ranging narrative of the community that built it over a period of two [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
De l’expertise artistique à la vulgarisation au siècle des Lumières: Jean-Baptiste Descamps (1715-1791) et la peinture flamande, hollandaise et allemande
Jean-Baptiste Descamps was born in 1715 in Dunkirk, formerly a Flemish city which in 1662 had become annexed by France. He sought a profession as a painter and clearly wanted to orient himself towards [...] Read More
Rubens. Portraits After Existing Prototypes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 4)
Koenraad Jonckheere’s recent addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Portraits After Existing Prototypes, makes an important contribution to the understanding of a neglected but fascinating [...] Read More
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Catherine H. Lusheck’s book Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing is a new publication on Rubens’s drawings in Routlegde’s Visual Culture in Early Modernity series. Lusheck examines Rubens’s early [...] Read More
Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale
This beautifully illustrated book is a welcome interpretive study of Jan Brueghel the Elder, the result of nearly twenty years of immersion in his work that began on the completion of the author’s [...] Read More
Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels
Modern scholarship has routinely presented the Brussels-born Michael Sweerts as an ally of the Bamboccianti, those mainly Netherlandish genre painters in Rome notorious for disregarding conventional [...] Read More