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
17th-Century Flemish
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
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])
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)
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