17th-Century Flemish

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

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

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