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17th-Century Flemish

Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image

By Susan Merriam

Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2011. 214 pp, 28 color, 31 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-4094-0305-0

Review published November 2012

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

By Bernadette Van Haute

Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2006. 182 pp, 93 color, 34 b&w illus. ISBN 1- 86888-382-0

Review published November 2012

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

By Barbara Uppenkamp and Ben van Beneden, with a contribution by Piet Lombaerde

Cat. exh. Antwerp, Rubenshuis, September 10 – December 11, 2011. Antwerp: Rubenshuis, in association with Mercatorfonds, Brussels, 2011. 175 pp, 243 color illus. ISBN 978-90-6153-116-6

Review published April 2012

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

By Gregory Martin

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2011, 208 pp, 67 b&w and 22 color illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-04-2

Review published April 2012

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])

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

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