In 1675 Joachim von Sandrart wrote of Peter Paul Rubens, whom he had met personally, that his erudition was marked by 'extraordinary genius, wit and understanding.' Art historians have always seen [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Rubens. Drawing on Italy
The outstanding exhibition, Rubens, Drawing on Italy, shown in Edinburgh and Nottingham, shed considerable light on the highly complex subject of Rubens's reworking and 'improvement' of drawings by [...] Read More
Rubens. Palazzi di Genova. Architectural Drawings and Engravings (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII, 1)
The recently published volume (in 2 parts) of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens, is most exceptional, in that it has so little to do with [...] Read More
Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680
My first impression of the exhibition, which I saw in Essen, was that it was unusually large and impressive for a thematically-focused show (126 works). It comprised eleven sections correspond ing to [...] Read More
La Almoneda del siglo. Relaciones art’sticas entre España y Gran Bretaña, 1604-1655
The 'sale of the century' refers to the dispersal of the collection of Charles I of England, one of the most beautiful art collections at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in the [...] Read More
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture
As Emilie Gordenker says, the history of dress has often in the past been regarded as a suitable occupation for amateurs or, perish the thought, as ‘women’s work.’ But now at last it has moved into [...] Read More