17th-Century Flemish

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

Otto Vaenius and his Emblem Books (Glasgow Emblem Studies 15)

By Simon McKeown, ed.

Glasgow: Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of the Word/Image Cultures 2012. 316 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN978-0-85261-92-2

Review published April 2015

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)

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

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