17th-Century Flemish

Peter Paul Rubens. Barocke Leidenschaften

By Nils Büttner and Ulrich Heinen

With contributions by Thomas Döring, Birgit Franke, Silke Gatenbröcker, Fiona Healy and Claus Kemmer, Barbara Welzel and Andreas W. Vetter. [Cat. exh. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, August 8 - October 31, 2004.] Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2004. 352 pp. ISBN 3-7774-2165-0

Review published November 2006

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

By Fiona Donovan

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 188 pp, 96 illus (color and b&w). ISBN 0-300-09506-6

Review published November 2006

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

By Gregory Martin

Edited by Arnout Balis (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XV). London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2005, 2 vols, 524 pp, 12 col. illus, 220 b&w illus. ISBN 0-905203-72-0

Review published November 2006

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

By Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005. 290 pp, 56 color, 176 b&w illus. ISBN 0-89468-348-9

Review published November 2006

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

Lives of Rubens

By Giovanni Baglione, Joachim von Sandrart, Roger de Piles, with an introduction by Jeremy Wood

London: Pallas Athene, 2005. 96 pp, 28 color illus. ISBN 1-84368-007-6

Review published April 2006

The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible [...] Read More

Rubens. A Master in the Making

By David Jaffé and Elizabeth McGrath

With contributions by Amanda Bradley and Minna Moore Ede. [Cat. exh. National Gallery, London, 26 October 2005 – 15 January 2006]. London: National Gallery Company [distributor: Yale University Press, New Haven], 2005. 208 pp. ISBN 1 85709 371 2 (hardcover); 1 85709 326 7

Review published April 2006

In July 2002, the art world gasped when Sotheby's knocked down to Lord Thomson of Fleet an old master painting for the unheard-of sum of almost $76 million (£49.5 million) – a financial league in [...] Read More

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