17th-Century Flemish

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

Portraicts des SS Vertus de la Vierge contemplées par feue S.A.S.M. Isabelle Clere Eugenie Infante d’Espagne

By Jean Terrier

A facsimile edition with critical introduction by Cordula van Wyhe (Glasgow Emblem Studies, 7). Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2002. XL, 167, XII pp. ISBN 0-85261-768-2

Review published April 2005

Cordula van Wyhe has provided an informative and persuasive critical introduction to the facsimile edition of a relatively unknown but important emblem book: Portraicts des SS Vertus de la Vierge [...] Read More

Flämische Malerei des Barock in der Alten Pinakothek

By Konrad Renger with Claudia Denk

Munich and Cologne: Pinakothek-DuMont, 2002. 519 pp. ISBN 3-8321-7255-6

Review published April 2005

Nowadays, writing a museum catalogue has become one of the most challenging art-historical endeavors. It should keep its value for several decades, and offer an in-depth yet succinct treatment of the [...] Read More

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613/14-1654). Ein flämischer Nachfolger Van Dycks (Pictura Nova, 9)

By Axel Heinrich

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. 640 pp, 180 b&w illus., 1 color plate. ISBN 2-503-51143-0

Review published November 2004

These two handsomely produced volumes publish the work that was begun as a dissertation, submitted in 2000 to the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen and written under the supervision of Karl Arndt. [...] Read More

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