Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder. Vol. I: Sammler und Mäzen. Edited by Reinhold Baumstark with contributions by Reinhold Baumstark, Marcus Dekiert, Hubert Glaser, Oliver Kase and Christian Quaeitzsch. [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Landscape and Philosophy in the Art of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)
Greatly appreciated and admired by his contemporaries, Jan Brueghel the Elder today is among the most underrated artists around 1600. In the diverse travel accounts of the time, Rubens, still highly [...] Read More
Black is Beautiful. Rubens to Dumas
In the summer of 2008, a fascinating exhibition about the representation of black people by Dutch and Flemish artists, from late medieval to modern times, was held at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The [...] Read More
Das Königreich am Dreikönigstag. Eine historisch-empirische Ritualstudie
In recent years – primarily inspired by the publication in 1997 of Edward Muir´s Ritual in Early Modern Europe – scholars have focused on the question of the role of rituals within a community and [...] Read More
The Later Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
There is no doubt that Christopher White's recently published catalogue of the seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in the collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II fills an important gap in the series [...] Read More
The Works of Peter Paul Rubens in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Reconsidered
In contrast to the many Rubens exhibitions from 2002 to 2006 that were attempting to give an overview of the artist’s work or some section of it, the Brussels exhibition Rubens. A Genius at Work, [...] Read More