Claudia Banz, Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
David III Ryckaert: A Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painter of Peasant Scenes (Pictura Nova, VI)
It must be counted ill luck to be dubbed ‘the third’, when Senior never existed as a painter (he was probably a decorator of sculpture), and Junior, although a recorded master in the guild of St Luke, [...] Read More
Two Books on Flemish Tapestries
Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry. London: Thames & Hudson; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. 383 pp, generous colour and some b&w illus. ISBN 0-500-01972-X. Guy Delmarcel, Los Honores. [...] Read More
Paul Bril: The Drawings. A Study of their Role in Seventeenth-Century European Landscape (Pictura Nova, IV)
This book is the fourth title to appear in the excellent Pictura Novaseries of studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Flemish painting and drawing, which has already brought us one other work [...] Read More
Images of Death. Rubens Copies Holbein
Credit is due to the Stedelijk Prentenkabinet and the Rubenshuis in Antwerp for, respectively, acquiring and exhibiting 44 pen and wash drawings by the young Rubens after the Images of Death, the [...] Read More
Jacob Jordaens: Design for Tapestries (Pictura Nova, Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, V)
Considering that Jacob Jordaens was the most prolific designer for tapestry in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth century, it is remarkable that up until now we have had to rely on Max [...] Read More