17th-Century Flemish

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)

By Natasja Peeters

Leuven: Peeters, 2014. 344 pp, illus. ISBN 978-90-429-3085-8

Review published April 2015

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

By Jean-Pierre De Bruyn and Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart, eds.

With contributions by Jean-Pierre De Bruyn, Alain Jacobs and Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart. [Cat. exh. Musée de Flandre, Cassel, April 5 – September 7, 2014.] Ghent-Kortrijk: Uitgeverij Snoeck 2014. 174 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6161-143-7. Also available in French: Érasme Quellin (1607-1678): Dans le sillage de Rubens

Review published November 2014

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

By Alexis Merle du Bourg, ed.

With contributions by Joost Vander Auwera and Irene Schaudies. Cat. exh. Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, September 19, 2013 – January 19, 2014. Paris: Éditions Paris Musées, distributed by UD-Union, 2013. 334 pp, 138 b&w and color illus. ISBN 978-2-7596-0231-5

Review published November 2014

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

Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens. The Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi

By Anna C. Knaap and Michael C.J. Putnam, eds.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2013. 351 pp, 32 plates, most in color; 171 b&w figs. + music CD. ISBN 978-1-905375-83-7

Review published November 2014

Most multi-media spectacles of the early modern period, especially with a performance component, have been lost to history. Among the most lavish of these, dating back to the Burgundian dukes in the [...] Read More

The Low Countries at the Crossroads. Netherlandish Architecture as an Export Product in Early Modern Europe (1480-1680) (Architectura Moderna 8)

By Konrad Ottenheym and Krista De Jonge, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2013. 514 pp, 350 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54333-8

Review published November 2014

This publication honors a promise: most immediately, it keeps the promise made to the research institutions that have supported the project over many years (VNC - Vlaams Nederlands Comité, NWO – [...] Read More

Embracing Brussels: Art and Culture in the Court City, 1600-1800

By Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Leen Kelchtermans, and Koenraad Brosens, eds.

With contributions by Veerle De Laet, Harald Deceulaer, Karel Porteman, Maartje De Wilde, Elisabeth Bruyns, Beatrijs Wolters van der Wey, Eelco Nagelsmit, Dries Lyna, Piet Stryckers, Leen Kelchtermans, Jean-Philippe Huys, Pierre-Yves Kairis, Koenraad Brosens and Guy Delmarcel. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2013. 277 pp, 120 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54228-7

Review published November 2014

The present volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in December 2010 dedicated to art and art production in Brussels, organized by the Faculty of Arts, KULeuven, and the Royal Museum of [...] Read More