17th-Century Flemish

Images of Death. Rubens Copies Holbein

By Kristin Lohse Belkin and Carl Depauw, eds.

With contributions by Michael Kwakkelstein, Kristin Lohse Belkin and Volker Manuth [Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Rubens, Holbein and the Dance of Death. On the Acquisition of a Sketchbook, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, April 8 – June 12, 2000]. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon; Antwerp: Rubens-huis, 2000. 140 pp, 47 col. pls, 97 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5349-320-4

Review published April 2001

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)

By Kristi Nelson

Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. 376 pp, 206 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-50578-3

Review published November 2000

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

Bellisimi ingegni, grandissimo splendore. Studies over de religieuze architectuur in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden tijdens de 17de eeuw

By Krista De Jonge, Annemie De Vos and Joris Snaet (eds.)

(Symbolae. Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis. Series B, vol. 15). Leuven: Universitaire Pers, 2000

Review published November 2000

In her introduction to this novel and valuable anthology, Krista De Jonge, Professor of Architectural History at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, notes that the decade between Carolus Scribanius's [...] Read More

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Paintings: The Netherlands, XV-XVI Centuries; Flanders XVII-XVIII Centuries; Belgium XIX-XX Centuries

By Xenia Egorova

Flanders XVII-XVIII Centuries; Belgium XIX-XX Centuries. Moscow: Pushkin State Musuem of Fine Arts, 1998. 416 pp, many col. and b&w illus. ISBN 5-89480-010-2. In Russian

Review published November 2000

The collection of Flemish paintings (in Russian the term is as inclusive as the Italian 'fiamminghi' and the French 'flamand') is one of the unheralded strengths of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in [...] Read More

Rubens and His Spanish Patrons

By Alexander Vergara

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 278 pp, 86 b&w illus. ISBN 0-521-63245-5

Review published November 2000

Probably the most internationally active painter of his day, Rubens catered to the artistically-refined taste of the courts of England, France and Spain by providing individual works, often of a [...] Read More

Kunst in de Bank. een keuze van Rubens tot Magritte

By Arnout Balis and Piet Coessens

Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1997. 170 pp, 194 entries with col. illus. ISBN 90-6153-404-6 (hardcover), 90-6153-406-2 (softcover)

Review published May 2000

The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, October 24, 1997 - January 4, 1998. The Belgian branch of the Paris bank Paribas (now [...] Read More

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