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17th-Century Flemish

The Eye of the Lynx. Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History

By David Freedberg

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 513 pp. ISBN 0-226-26147-6

Review published November 2005

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)

By Rüdiger Klessmann

Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2003. 192 pp, 40 col., 159 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7774-9930-7

Review published November 2005

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

By Konrad Renger and Nina Schleif

Ed. by Reinhold Baumstark. Munich: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen -Pinakothek; Cologne: DuMont, 2005. 365 pp, all paintings in color, many with additional details. ISBN 3-8321-7576-8

Review published November 2005

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

By Peter C. Sutton, Marjorie E. Wieseman

With a contribution by Nico van Hout. [Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 2, 2004 - January 30, 2005; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, March 2 - May 15, 2005; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11 - September 11, 2005] New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. 272 pp, 43 col. and numerous b&w illus. ISBN 0-300-10626-2

Review published April 2005

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

A House of Art: Rubens as Collector

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Fiona Healy

With an introductory essay by Jeffrey M. Muller and catalogue entries by Kristin Lohse Belkin, Fiona Healy and Gregory Martin. [Cat. exh. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, March 6 - June 13, 2004.] Antwerp: Rubenshuis and Rubenianum; Schoten: BAI, 2004. 342 pp. ISBN 90-76704-69-4 (hardcover) 90-76704-70-8 (paperback)

Review published April 2005

The staging of the exhibition 'A House of Art: Rubens as Collector' in 2004 is, without doubt, the most ambitious project ever undertaken at the Rubenshuis - the house-museum of Peter Paul Rubens [...] Read More

Gärten der Musen und Grazien. Mensch und Natur im niederländischen Humanistengarten, 1522-1655 (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 111)

By Christiane M. Lauterbach

Munich/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003. 327 pp, 34 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-06406-0

Review published April 2005

This publication looks at the extent to which humanists in the golden age of Netherlandish humanism were inspired by the art, ideas and culture of the garden. The author knowledgeably analyses the [...] Read More

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