17th-Century Flemish

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

Rubens. Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 3)

By Katlijne Van der Stighelen and Hans Vlieghe

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 408 pp, 164 illus., mostly colored. ISBN 978-1-912554-63-8.

Review published May 2022

In the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard four volumes are devoted to Rubens’s portraits. The first, by Frances Huemer, Portraits Painted in Foreign Countries, appeared in 1977, the second, by Hans [...] Read More

La dynastie Francken/ De dynastie Francken

By Sandrine Vézilier Dusart, ed.

Exh. Cat. Musée départemental de Flandre, Cassel, September 4, 2021-January 2, 2022. Paris: In Fine éditions d’art, 2020. 216 pp, numerous illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-2-38203-018-9.

Review published January 2022

During the last decade the Musée de Flandre in the picturesque Northern French city of Cassel has received a certain renown for its exhibitions of Flemish seventeenth-century painting, sometimes [...] Read More

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