In his famous letter of 12 March 1638 to Justus Susterman, a painter to the Florentine court, Rubens concluded his long explanation of the iconography of his Horrors of War by noting that he had [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. II. Titian and North Italian Art (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])
Such is the richness of the material and such is the depth of the exegesis, it will have taken Jeremy Wood three volumes of text and three of illustrations, more than any other part of the Corpus [...] Read More
Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. I. Raphael and His School (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])
In the past eleven years the Rubenianum has been forcing the pace. It managed to bring out no less than five volumes of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, whereas only two had been published in [...] Read More
Rubens. Copies and Adaptions from Renaissance and Later Artists: German and Netherlandish Artists (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [I])
Almost thirty years ago I sat looking at a drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Morgan Library. Attributed to Hans Süss von Kulmbach, the sketch unmistakably betrayed Albrecht Dürer’s [...] Read More
Two Publications on Rubens
Rubens (Museo Nacional del Prado. Guías de la Colección), Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2010. 61 pp, 91 color illus. ISBN 978-84-84 802-11-2. Rubens. The Spectacle of Life. In English, Spanish [...] Read More
Room for Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
Room for Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp / Kamers vol kunst in 17e-eeuws Antwerpen was, to my knowledge, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on gallery paintings, a subject restricted to [...] Read More