Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, October 15, 2024 – February 16, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Alejandro Vergara. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2024. 168 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-84-8480-622-6.
This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Prado between October 2024 and February 2025. It was organized by the Curator of Flemish paintings at the Museum, Alejandro Vergara, and is the [...] Read More
Exh. cat. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 20, 2023 – January 21, 2024; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 24 – May 26, 2024. Antwerp: Hannibal Books and KMSKA, 2023. 191 pp, 136 color illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 664 9.
English and Dutch editions (English reviewed here)
As psychologists have long known, there is no visual experience more powerful than coming face-to-face with another human being. It is not surprising, then, that human physiognomy has occupied artists [...] Read More
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. 526 pp, incl. 269 col. + b& illus. ISBN 978-90-04-27637-6 (hardback); 978-90-04-27638-3 (e-book).
This book is the revised publication of a PhD thesis, defended by the author in 2021 at the University of York. Actually, it is about two very important painting commissions for the decoration of [...] Read More
London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2023. Vol. 1: 505 pp; Vol. 2: 294 pp, 268 illus. ISBN 978-1-915487-27-8. 2 vols.
The Author’s Preface to Nils Büttner’s study of the Medici Series in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the complete catalogue of Rubens’s oeuvre, conveys within its first two paragraphs the scope [...] Read More
With contributions by Camille De Clercq, Judy De Roy and Laurent Fontaine (Scientia Artis, 20). Brussels: Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, 2024. 485 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-2-930054-45-2 (French).
A familiar narrative around the Brussels sculptor François du Quesnoy (1597-1643), known in Rome as il Fiammingo, goes something like this: despite being Flemish by birth, suffering various personal [...] Read More
2 vols. London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2024, 352 pp. Vol. 1: 310 pp; Vol. 2: 392 illus. ISBN 978-1-915487-40-4 (vol. 1) and 978-1-915487-41-4 (vol. 2).
One of the greatest catalogue projects in the history of art history is nearing its finish line. The entirety of Rubens’s output along with related sketches, drawings, variants, and copies engaged the [...] Read More