17th-Century Flemish

Two Publications on Rubens

By various authors

Review published April 2011

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

By Ariane van Suchtelen and Ben van Beneden

[Cat. exh. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, November 28, 2009 – February 28, 2010; Mauritshuis, The Hague, March 25 – June 27, 2010]. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2009. 143 pp, 101 illus. ISBN 978-90-400-7655-8 (English); 978-90-400-8639-7 (Dutch)

Review published April 2011

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

Three Publications on Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz

By Reinhold Baumstark and various authors

Review published November 2010

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

Landscape and Philosophy in the Art of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)

By Leopoldine Prosperetti

Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xvii + 274 pp, 79 illus., including 12 color plates. ISBN 978-0-7546-6090-3

Review published April 2010

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

By Elmer Kolfin and Esther Schreuder (eds.)

Cat. exh. De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam, July 26 – October 26, 2008. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2008, 388 pp (8 essays), 188 illus., mostly color. ISBN 978-90-400-8497-3 (English, hb); 978-90-400-8465-2 (pb); 978-90-400-8496-6 (Dutch, hb); 978-90-400-8464-5 (pb)

Review published April 2010

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

By Dominik Fugger

Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Press, 2007. 248 pp, 17 colour, 19 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-506-76404-1

Review published November 2009

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

17th-Century Flemish