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
17th-Century Flemish
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
The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection
Daniel Nijs, the Flemish merchant and entrepreneur, the subject of this excellent in-depth study by Christina Anderson, is best known for his part in the sale of the Gonzaga collection to Charles I. [...] Read More
Denijs van Alsloot (vers 1568 ?- 1625/26). Peintre paysagiste au service de la cour des archiducs Albert et Isabelle (Pictura Nova, XV)
In the last decades painters working in Brussels under the two Habsburg archdukes Albert and Isabella have received monographic treatments only sporadically compared to their Antwerp colleagues [...] Read More
Picturing Ludwig Burchard, 1886-1960. A Rubens Scholar in Art-Historiographical Perspective
The arrival of Ludwig Burchard’s archive and library in Antwerp in 1963 can be considered to mark the birth of the Rubenianum as an independent research center on Peter Paul Rubens. For the scholarly [...] Read More