Fiona Healy has studied in depth and for the first time Rubens's eight surviving depictions of the Judgement of Paris. As she argues it, these works bracket the start and end of the artist's career. [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Rubens (Art & Ideas)
Rembrandt yes, Rubens no, would be the verdict of the museum-going public in 2000. But if anything is going to get them to think again it is this book. This is indeed a biography in the old fashioned [...] Read More
Tableaux flamandes et hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier (Collections flamandes et hollandaises des Musées de Province)
This exemplary publication is the latest in a series of collection/exhibition catalogues devoted to Dutch and Flemish paintings in French provincial museums, which have been produced by the Fondation [...] Read More
Two Publications on the Collection of Henry H. Weldon
In the Eye of the Beholder: Northern Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon. Forward by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann; catalogue by Nancy T. Minty [Exh. Cat.]. New Orleans: New Orleans [...] Read More
A Journey to Flanders and Holland
Anyone familiar with Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses knows his opinion that Flemish and Dutch paintings were inferior to Italian. While he admired the skillful descriptiveness and precise brushwork [...] Read More
Miniatura or the Art of Limning
Edward Norgate was a gentleman employed in the service of the early Stuart kings. Emerging from an academic background (his father was vice-chancellor of Cambridge), he evinced strong artistic [...] Read More