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

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

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

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

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

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