This book constitutes the most comprehensive study to date of Teniers’s life and work. It reviews and updates the source material, and constructs a new image of Teniers as a painter. Hans Vlieghe’s [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Pieter Soutman. Life and Oeuvre. (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, vol. 12)
A monograph on the Dutch artist Pieter Claesz. Soutman (c. 1593/1601-1657) has long been one of the desiderata in the history of seventeenth-century northern art since he combined the art of Holland [...] Read More
Rubens. Subjects from History 3: The Constantine Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIII [3])
In this latest installment of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Koenraad Brosens grapples with the twelve-part Story of Constantinetapestry series which Peter Paul Rubens designed in 1622 and [...] Read More
Der katholische Rubens. Heilige und Märtyrer (Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung)
Nobody ever doubted that Rubens was a Roman catholic, but art history has not yet given much attention to this fact. In a handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated, book, Willibald Sauerländer [...] Read More
The Shadow of Rubens: Print Publishing in 17th-Century Antwerp (The Print Collection of the Royal Library, 2)
In her book, The Shadow of Rubens: Print Publishing in 17th-Century Antwerp, Ann Diels provides a study of the printmaking activities of three of Antwerp’s most important, yet relatively unheralded [...] Read More
Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image
Garlands of fruits and flowers surround eucharistic still lifes or pay homage to religious images or visions. Intended as trompe l’oeils, they form illusionistic frames within the picture frames. [...] Read More