Those wishing to survey the variety and breadth of the oeuvre of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) or provide a handy reference in a footnote have hitherto reached for Gustav Glück, Van Dyck, des Meisters [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Peter Paul Rubens, The Drawings
For those too young to have seen the great round of Rubens exhibitions staged in the 400th anniversary year of 1977, the remarkable 2004-05 exhibition, shown in Vienna and New York, was the first [...] Read More
The Eye of the Lynx. Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
The complete scientific compilation of natural history, especially the animal and plant world, was the principal project of the Accademia dei Lincei. Founded in 1603 by the Roman nobleman Federico [...] Read More
Die flämischen Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Sammlungskataloge des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums Braunschweig, 12)
The publication of this catalogue of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Flemish paintings in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig is a cause for celebration. This old and distinguished [...] Read More
Staatsgalerie Neuburg an der Donau. Flämische Barockmalerei
Rubens kehrt zurück (Rubens returns). With this catchy phrase, the city of Neuburg on the Danube, one and a half hours north of Munich, promoted its new art museum dedicated to Flemish [...] Read More
Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens
There dawned one realisation during the symposium at the Bruce Museum, held towards the end of its Rubens oil sketches show (January 22, 2005), as the great blizzard swept north from New York, and the [...] Read More