Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two (1609-1620) (Pictura Nova, XXIII)
With commendable promptness the second part of that major scholarly project, a catalogue raisonné of all Rubens drawings, has been published. On opening the two-volume set, one detail that immediately [...] Read More
Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650
For much of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period, alabaster was often the material of choice for sculptors in various European centers, creating works ranging from the intimate to the [...] Read More
Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 17)
This book is based on the PhD thesis submitted to Princeton University by Abigail Newman, a recently appointed deputy curator at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. The author starts her survey with the [...] Read More
Rubens. Architecture and Sculpture: Rubens’s House (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII, 2)
Like most volumes in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard (CRLB), Rubens’s House by Nora De Poorter and the late Frans Baudouin is a double volume. Volume One contains an introduction, eleven [...] Read More
Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Hercules to Olympus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 2)
The writing of the catalogue raisonné of Rubens’s work is arguably one of the most ambitious projects dedicated to a single artist over the last several decades. The early volumes in this series, [...] Read More