The interest in the Society of Jesus has exploded in the last few decades. Jesuit art and religious culture have been the subjects of a remarkable number of books, exhibition catalogues, and [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Thinking Through Rubens. Selected Studies by Arnout Balis
This memorial volume commemorates the accomplishments – many of them not visible in publications – of a leading Rubens scholar of his generation: Arnout Balis. Collecting his published articles around [...] Read More
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Antwerp-born Anthony Van Dyck occupies an important, if complex, place in the history of English painting. Breathtakingly talented in his virtuosic handling, during his time in England Van Dyck was [...] Read More
The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More
The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two (1609-1620) (Pictura Nova, XXIII)
With commendable promptness the second part of that major scholarly project, a catalogue raisonné of all Rubens drawings, has been published. On opening the two-volume set, one detail that immediately [...] Read More
Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650
For much of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period, alabaster was often the material of choice for sculptors in various European centers, creating works ranging from the intimate to the [...] Read More