17th-Century Flemish

Munuscola Amicorum. Contributions on Rubens and his Colleagues in Honour of Hans Vlieghe (Pictura Nova, 10)

By Katlijne Van der Stighelen (ed.)

2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. 688 pp. ISBN 2-503-52502-0 (vol. 1), 2-503-52503-7 (vol. 2)

Review published April 2008

Munuscola Amicorum – friends’ little gifts – is the title of a two-volume, densely written tribute to an admired and productive art historian: Hans Vlieghe. Your reviewer would have gladly added his [...] Read More

David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting

By Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen (ed.)

With essays by Margret Klinge, Giles Waterfield and James Methuen-Campbell and contributions by Caroline Campbell and Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen. [Cat. exh. Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London, October 16, 2006 – January 21, 2007]. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2006. 135 pp, 124 color plates, 5 b&w illus. ISBN 1-903470-69-2

Review published April 2007

This small exhibition, installed in one room at Somerset House, was dedicated to David Teniers’s Theatrum Pictorium or “Theatre of Painting”, published in 1660 in Brussels. The show was built around [...] Read More

Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship

By Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen

With contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum. [Cat. exh. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 5 - September 4, 2006; The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 21 - January 28, 2007.] Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2006. 274 pp, color and b&w illus. ISBN 0-89236-848-9

Review published November 2006

Ever since the correspondence between Jan Brueghel the Elder and his benefactor in Milan, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, was brought into circulation the reference by the Velvet Brueghel to Peter Paul [...] Read More

Rubens. The Adoration of the Magi

By Alejandro Vergara

With contributions by Herlinda Cabrero, Jaime García-Máiquez, Carmen Garrido, Juan José Pérez Preciado and Joost Vander Auwera. [Cat. exh. Museo del Prado, Madrid 30 November 2004 - 27 February 2005.] Spanish edition: Madrid: Museo del Prado, 2004. ISBN: 84-8480-074-1; English edition: Madrid: Museo del Prado, London: Paul Holberton Publishing. 242 pp, 33 color pls., 3 fold-outs, 82 illus, mostly color. ISBN 1-903470-39-0

Review published November 2006

This is an excellent catalogue of an exemplary show which studies the evolution of Rubens's Adoration of the Magi. The painting, now in the Prado, was commissioned for the Antwerp Town Hall in 1609, [...] Read More

Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens

By Lisa Rosenthal

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 312 pp, 8 color pls, 85 b&w illus. ISBN 0-521-84244-1

Review published November 2006

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

Peter Paul Rubens’ bildimplizierte Kunsttheorie in ausgewählten mythologischen Historien (1611-1618) (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 39)

By Eveliina Juntunen

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2005. 188 pp, 6 col. and 55 b&w illus. ISBN 3-86568-049-6

Review published November 2006

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

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