What prompted Rubens to produce a tapestry series with eight scenes devoted to the life of the Greek hero Achilles? What do we know about Rubens's working method in producing preparatory works for the [...] Read More

Rubens's Adoration of the Magi, today in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, originally hung in the Hall of the States in Antwerp's Town Hall where the Twelve Year Truce between the United Provinces and [...] Read More

Erik Duverger will be remembered by all historians of Netherlandish art as a scholar who discovered and published enormous amounts of archival material. This publication, printed only just after his [...] Read More

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

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

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