17th-Century Flemish

Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. III. Artists Working in Central Italy and France (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2011, 2 vols., I: 456 pp, 7 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 247 pp, 260 b&w ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-79-0/80-6

Review published April 2012

This publication, the latest in the on-going Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard series, represents the third part of Rubens's engagement with Italian art through copies and adaptations. It is devoted [...] Read More

The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective. Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder (c. 1550-1603), Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger (1580/82-1649), Susanna van Steenwyck (dates unknown-active 1639-c. 1660) (Pictura Nova, XII : Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)

By Jeremy Howarth

Turnhout: Brepols 2009. 557 pp, ISBN 978-2-503-51509-0

Review published April 2012

Carel van Mander heaped praise on Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder’s interior views of modern churches: the master was so successful in this genre that hardly anyone could exceed him. The biographer [...] Read More

Credo. Meisterwerke der Glaubenskunst

By Alexandra Dern and Ursula Härting, eds.

[Cat. exh. Mettingen, Draiflessen, October 16, 2010 - January 9, 2011.] Mettingen: Forum der Draiflessen Collection, 2010. 320 pp, numerous illus. ISBN 978-3-942359-00-9 (German); 978-3-942359-00-3 (Dutch); 978-3-942359-00-6 (English)

Review published November 2011

This richly documented catalogue, which was published in three languages, accompanied the exhibition organized in 2010-11 by the 'Forum der Draiflessen Collection' in Mettingen. The Draiflessen [...] Read More

Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620. Visual and Poetic Memory

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine

Farnham (Surrey)/ Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate, 2009. ix, 223 pp, ISBN 978-0-7546-6771-1

Review published November 2011

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

Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. II. Titian and North Italian Art (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2010, 2 vols., I: 443 pp, 4 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 231 pp, 223 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-40-0

Review published November 2011

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])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2010, 2 vols., I: 448 pp, 28 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 269 pp, 263 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-39-4

Review published November 2011

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

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