17th-Century Flemish

Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale

By Elizabeth Alice Honig

University Park: Penn State University Press, 2016. 265 pp, 152 illus. ISBN 978-0-271-07108-4.

Review published October 2017

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

By Lara Yeager-Crasselt

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 340 pp, 33 color, 67 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55530-0

Review published October 2017

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

The Art of Clara Peeters

By Alejandro Vergara, ed.

With essays by Alejandro Vergara and Anne Lenders. Cat. exh. Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp, June 16 – October 2, 2016; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, October 25, 2016 – February 19, 2017. Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten; Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016. 136 pp, fully illus. in color. ISBN 978-84-8480-324-9

Review published April 2017

The Art of Clara Peeters was an especially welcome exhibition shown at the Rockoxhuis in Antwerp and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid not only because of the attraction generally held by [...] Read More

Das Paradies auf Erden. Flämische Landschaften von Bruegel bis Rubens

By Uta Neidhardt and Konstanze Krüger, eds.

Cat. exh. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, October 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017. Translations from Dutch by Susanne Henriette Karau and Rolf Erdorf. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2016. 368 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-95498-252-3

Review published April 2017

The Gemäldegalerie in Dresden has a rich collection of Flemish landscape paintings of the highest quality. Of the approximately 150 works from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, roughly [...] Read More

On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court

By Erin Griffey

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2015. 371 pp, 131 col. and b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-21400-0

Review published November 2016

Erin Griffey in this attractive book fills out our picture of Queen Henrietta Maria, the valiant but controversial consort of King Charles I of Great Britain, by describing the material culture that [...] Read More

Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Achilles to the Graces (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 1)

By Elizabeth McGrath, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healy, Bert Schepers, Carl Van de Velde and Karolien De Clippel

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2016. 2 vols. ISBN 978-1-909400-47-4

Review published November 2016

The publication of the first volume on Rubens’s mythological paintings is another milestone for the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, arguably the longest and most exhaustive catalogue raisonńe [...] Read More

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17th-Century Flemish