Questions of artistic collaboration, rivalry, and dialogue find rich and ample material within Rubens’s career, oeuvre, and afterlife, as the abundance of recent scholarship demonstrates (e.g. Anne T. [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Spectacular Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist
The restoration of the Prado’s six oil sketches for Rubens’s Eucharist Tapestries, partially funded by the Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative, was the occasion for an exhibition at their [...] Read More
Otto Vaenius and his Emblem Books (Glasgow Emblem Studies 15)
Otto Vaenius and his Emblem Books builds upon the earlier thematic collections in the Glasgow Emblem Studies series, while also representing a step in a somewhat different direction: a closer look at [...] Read More
Frans Francken de Oude (ca. 1542-1616): leven en werken van een Antwerps historieschilder (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, new series, 26)
Born in Herentals, near Antwerp, Frans Francken the Elder, pupil of Frans Floris, became a master in Antwerp in 1567/68, acquiring citizenship March 31, 1568. In order to distinguish between the [...] Read More
Erasmus Quellinus (1607-1678): In de voetsporen van Rubens
We are accustomed to large museums of international reputation attracting visitors with exhibitions of artists with “big” names. It is therefore all the more refreshing to see a different approach [...] Read More
Jordaens 1593-1678. La Gloire d’Anvers
All those fortunate enough to have visited the wonderful Jordaens exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, will agree that its impressive design formed an important statement in the ongoing reappraisal [...] Read More