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
17th-Century Flemish
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
David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). A Biography (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XVI)
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
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