17th-Century Flemish

The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two (1609-1620) (Pictura Nova, XXIII)

By Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin

2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2023. 732 pp, 291 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-59953-3.

Review published October 2023

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

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

Exh. Cat. M Leuven, October 14, 2022 – February 26, 2023. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. 312 pp, 360 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-92-8.

Review published September 2023

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

Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 17)

By Abigail D. Newman

Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022. XXII and 325 pp, numerous ills., mostly in color. ISBN 978-90-04-42629-0

Review published September 2023

This book is based on the PhD thesis submitted to Princeton University by Abigail Newman, a recently appointed deputy curator at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. The author starts her survey with the [...] Read More

Rubens. Architecture and Sculpture: Rubens’s House (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII, 2)

By Nora De Poorter and Frans Baudouin Edited by Arnout Balis (†), Brecht Vanoppen, Isabelle Van Tichelen, Joannes van den Maagdenberg and Valerie Herremans. Transl. from the Dutch by Jantien Black and Lee Preedy

2 vols. London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. Vol. 1: 433 pp; Vol. 2: 236 illus., including in color. ISBN 978-1-912554-64-5

Review published August 2023

Like most volumes in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard (CRLB), Rubens’s House by Nora De Poorter and the late Frans Baudouin is a double volume. Volume One contains an introduction, eleven [...] Read More

Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Hercules to Olympus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 2)

By Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gerlinde Gruber, Fiona Healy, Eveliina Juntunen, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood. Edited by Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, and Brecht Vanoppen

2 vols. London/ Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. Vol. I: 552 pp; Vol. II: 393 pp., 416 illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-1-912554-86-7.

Review published May 2023

The writing of the catalogue raisonné of Rubens’s work is arguably one of the most ambitious projects dedicated to a single artist over the last several decades. The early volumes in this series, [...] Read More

Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c.1500-1800: Poetry and Ecology

By Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti

London: Lund Humphries, 2022. 160 pp, 72 mostly color ills. ISBN: 978-1-84822-494-0.

Review published April 2023

This important and charming book examines the depiction of woodlands and individual trees in the visual arts and poetry during the long Renaissance and beyond. It posits that in former times human [...] Read More

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17th-Century Flemish