17th-Century Flemish

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

Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Anatomical Studies. Edited by Nils Büttner and Brecht Vanoppen (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [1])

By Michael W. Kwakkelstein

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 218 pp, 31 b&w and color text illus., 112 b&w and color figs. ISBN 978-0-905203-80-5.

Review published December 2022

While this latest addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard may initially seem like a comparatively modest undertaking vis-à-vis other studies of aspects of Rubens’s oeuvre published in this [...] Read More

Artists’ and Artisans’ Collections in Early Modern Antwerp: Catalysts of Innovation (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)

By Marlise Rijks

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. xvi, 278 pp, 87 ill., mostly colored. ISBN 978-1-912554-05-8.

Review published December 2022

This beautifully produced book is a product of years of extensive research and study of a fascinating subject: the collecting culture in early modern Antwerp, with focus on the collections of artists [...] Read More

Vita di Pietro Paolo Rubens & Vita di Antonio Van Dyck. Das Leben des Peter Paul Rubens & Das Leben des Anthonis van Dyck

By Anja Brug. Edited, commented and with an essay by Fiona Healy (Giovan Pietro Bellori, Le vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti moderni. Die Lebensbeschreibungen der modernen Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten, ed. Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Tristan Weddigen, and Anja Brug, VI)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. 334 pp, 27 col. pls. ISBN 987-3-8353-3621-6

Review published May 2022

Fiona Healy’s commented edition of Giovan Pietro Bellori’s biographies of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck is the sixth volume of the bilingual Italian-German edition of Le Vite de’ pittori, [...] Read More

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