Guy Delmarcel served as curator of textiles at the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels from 1975-1990 and as Professor of the History of Art at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1981-2002. His [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings
Despite the fact that three times during the second half of the twentieth century the need to pay death duties or raise funds for other reasons led to the departure of substantial groups of drawings, [...] Read More
Jan Brueghels Antwerpen: Die flämischen Gemälde in Schwerin
The art collection of Schwerin's Staatliches Museum was largely assembled by the Dukes of Mecklenburg, and in particular by Duke Christian Ludwig II (1683-1756). The merit of the dukes consists in [...] Read More
Scherpenheuvel. Het Jeruzalem van de Lage Landen
The pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel is arguably the most significant building commissioned by the archdukes Albrecht and Isabella during their reign as sovereigns of the Spanish [...] Read More
The Reception of P. P. Rubens’s Palazzi di Genova during the 17th Century in Europe: Questions and Problems
The development of the architectural treatise in Renaissance Europe has become a popular area of research, drawing on scholarship in the history of publication, printing, reading, and a host of allied [...] Read More
Tessin. Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. Royal Architect and Visionary (Nationalmuseum Skriftserie, N.S. 16)
The Millennium in Sweden also saw the start of several publications and of an exhibition on the Royal architect, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-1728). To celebrate its tercentenary, the Bank of [...] Read More