17th-Century Flemish

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

Pan & Syrinx. Eine erotische Jagd. Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel und ihre Zeitgenossen

By Justus Lange, Christine Van Mulders, Bernhard Schnackenburg, and Joost Vander Auwera

[Cat. exh. Staatliche Museen, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, March 19 - June 13, 2004; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, June 25 - August 22, 2004.] Kassel: Staatliche Museen, 2004. 192 pp, 43 b&w illus. and one foldout; 42 color plates, one color foldout of the Kassel painting. ISBN 3-931787-30-3

Review published November 2004

With this exhibition the Staatliche Museen in Kassel celebrated the repurchase in 2001 of the cabinet piece, Pan and Syrinx of c.1617, painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), who added the figures, [...] Read More

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