Lisa Rosenthal's Gender, Politics and Allegory in the Art of Rubens is an ambitious project, covering three fundamental aspects of Rubens's pictorial rhetoric. The aim of the book is to demonstrate [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Peter Paul Rubens’ bildimplizierte Kunsttheorie in ausgewählten mythologischen Historien (1611-1618) (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 39)
Only sporadic traces of Rubens's written art theoretical views have survived, making them a particularly challenging subject for scholars. Considerable attention has in recent years been paid to [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens. Barocke Leidenschaften
Among the many exhibitions of Rubens's work that took place in the year 2004, the Brunswick exhibition Peter Paul Rubens: Barocke Leidenschaften deserves particular mention. Here a topic is explored [...] Read More
Rubens and England
Fiona Donovan has written a trail-breaking survey of Rubens's relationship with England, centred on the nine paintings he provided to decorate the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall Palace in [...] Read More
Rubens. The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall
Although the text, as the author tells us, was completed at the end of the last century, Gregory Martin's two volumes on Rubens's paintings for the Whitehall Ceiling is the most exhaustive and [...] Read More
Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art. Systematic Catalogue
The Systematic Catalogue series documenting the rich collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington continues to grow since its inception in the 1980s. Exactly twenty years have passed since [...] Read More