This most welcome paperback publication in both Dutch and English (translated by Jantien Black) aims to settle the question once and for all as to when and where Rubens was born. Recorded in [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Frans Pourbus le jeune (1569-1622): Le portrait d’apparat à l’aube du Grand Siècle. Entre Habsbourg, Médicis et Bourbons
Studying artists in Rubens’s shadow is notoriously difficult for it takes time, empathy and a thorough understanding of Northern Baroque to distinguish between the inventions of the omnivorous Rubens [...] Read More
Brueghel: Gemälde von Jan Brueghel d. Ä
Members of the Wittelsbach family were keen on the work of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and by the eighteenth century they had accumulated significant numbers of his works, and ones by members of his [...] Read More
Intérieurs d’Églises 1580-1720. La Peinture Architecturale dans les Écoles du Nord
After many decades, research into late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Netherlandish architectural painting seems to be gaining in momentum. One reason for the long stagnation may have been [...] Read More
The Young Van Dyck
More than thirty years after the pioneering exhibition in Ottawa curated by Ian MacNairn (1980), the Museo del Prado organised a comprehensive exploration of Anthony van Dyck's early years. The [...] Read More
Künstlerkonkurrenz in Antwerpen zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts: Janssen, Jordaens & Rubens
In this book (a doctoral thesis, University of Kassel, 2008), the author investigates the competition among artists working in Antwerp between 1608, the year Rubens returned from Italy, and 1620. [...] Read More