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

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

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 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

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

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