Among the selection of magnificent drawings by Northern artists featuring Dürer (6), Hans Holbein the Younger (2), Paul Bril (5), Peter Paul Rubens (2 copies, 4 retouched anon. Italian) and Anthony [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and his Courtiers
The King’s Pictures is a beautifully produced publication of the first Mellon lectures given in London in 1994 by Francis Haskell. Haskell died six years later, and this volume is as much an act of [...] Read More
Visions of the Courtly Body: The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court
Christiane Hille is a notable German scholar of the younger generation teaching as an assistant professor in Munich. This, her first book, is a study of painting and the masque in the reigns of Kings [...] Read More
Die Beischriften des Peter Paul Rubens. Überlegungen zu handschriftlichen Vermerken auf Zeichnungen
In 1959 Julius Held concluded the section on Rubens’s inscriptions on drawings in his authoritative and stimulating discussion of the artist’s graphic work (Rubens. Selected Drawings, 1959, rev. [...] Read More
L’Europe de Rubens
The present publication accompanied the first temporary exhibition held at the newly built off-site ‘dépendance’ of the Louvre in the former mining town of Lens in northern France. To mark the opening [...] Read More
Gonzales Coques (1614-1684). Der kleine Van Dyck (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing XIII)
Gonzales Coques was an Antwerp painter of cabinet-size individual and family group portraits, all viewed slightly from below. As Lisken-Pruss explicitly states, unlike so many of his contemporaries, [...] Read More