17th-Century Flemish

Picturing Ludwig Burchard, 1886-1960. A Rubens Scholar in Art-Historiographical Perspective

By Lieneke Nijkamp, Koen Bulckens, and Prisca Valkeneers, eds.

London / Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2015, 161pp, 56 figs. ISBN 978-1-909400-20-7

Review published November 2015

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

The Triumph of the Eucharist: Tapestries Designed by Rubens

By Charles Scribner III

New York/London: Carolus Editions 2014. 238 pp, fully illustrated. No ISBN

Review published November 2015

In the literature that has been devoted to Rubens's The Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series, Charles Scribner III has long been one of the most important contributors. His 1975 Art Bulletin [...] Read More

Rubens in Private: The Master Portrays his Family

By Ben van Beneden, ed.

Cat. exh. The Rubenshuis, Antwerp, March 28 – June 28, 2015. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 280 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-0-500-09396-2

Review published November 2015

This beautifully produced and much anticipated book is the companion to the first-ever exhibition focusing on the more private side of Rubens’s genius – a selection of self-portraits and portraits of [...] Read More

Rubens Unveiled, Paintings from Lost Antwerp Churches

By Valérie Herremans

Ghent: Snoeck Publishers; Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2013. 136 pp, 137 color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-6161-134-5

Review published April 2015

The Cathedral of Our Lady and the St. Paul's, St. James’s, St. Andrew’s and St. Charles Borromeo churches are Antwerp's five remaining monumental churches. These great monuments give an idea of the [...] Read More

Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Larry Silver

Farnham (Surrey)/Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate Publishing 2014. xiii, 297 pp, 160 illus., 48 in color. ISBN 978-1-4094-6233-0

Review published April 2015

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

Spectacular Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist

By Alejandro Vergara and Anne T. Woollett, eds.

[Cat. exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, March 25 – June 29, 2014; J. Paul Getty Museum, October 14, 2014 – January 11, 2015; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 15 – May 10, 2015.] Los Angeles: Getty Publications 2015. 112 pp, all color plates. ISBN 978-1-60606-430-6

Review published April 2015

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

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