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
17th-Century Flemish
On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court
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)
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
Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries (Studies in European Urban History, 1100-1800, 34)
A detail of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s well-known painting Gersaint’s Shopsign (1720) figures on the cover of this volume. The painting depicts the shop of the art dealer Edme-François Gersaint as a site [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his Landscapes: Ideas on Nature and Art, (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XX)
This well designed and handsomely produced book on Rubens’s landscapes brings together ideas that have clearly been developed over a number of years of thinking and research. It grew directly out of [...] Read More
Rubens. The Life of Christ before the Passion: The Youth of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, V, 1)
This beautifully produced two-volume addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dominated by the large number of representations of the Adoration of the Magi and the Adoration of the [...] Read More