In contrast to the many Rubens exhibitions from 2002 to 2006 that were attempting to give an overview of the artist’s work or some section of it, the Brussels exhibition Rubens. A Genius at Work, [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Rubens and the Netherlands/ Rubens en de Nederlanden (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/ Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 55, 2004)
It was a neat coincidence that Peter Paul Rubens was chosen as the subject of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek of 2004, since that was the year in which the artist was celebrated in a number of [...] Read More
Jean Del Cour Featured in Two Catalogues
Michel Lefftz, Jean Del Cour 1631-1707. Un émule du Bernin à Liège. [Cat. exh. Église Saint-Barthélemy, Liège, October 19, 2007 – February 3, 2008.] Brussels: Édition Racine, 2007. 192 pp, 249 illus. [...] Read More
Munuscola Amicorum. Contributions on Rubens and his Colleagues in Honour of Hans Vlieghe (Pictura Nova, 10)
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
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
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