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
17th-Century Flemish
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
Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in South African Public Collections
Bernadette Van Haute’s catalogue of Flemish paintings in public collections in South Africa refines Gillian Carman’s checklist published in 1994. Thanks to her further research a number of paintings [...] Read More
Palazzo Rubens. The Master as Architect
It has now become part of the standard service for visitors to exhibitions to receive, free of charge, a small guidebook, which is usually available in a number of languages. Such booklets have the [...] Read More
Rubens in London: Art and Diplomacy
This book summarizes for a general audience the findings of Gregory Martin's two-volume The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting House( Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XV, London and Turnhout, [...] Read More