17th-Century Flemish

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

Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Study Heads. Edited by Bert Schepers and Brecht Vanoppen; transl. by Michael Hoyle, with additional translations by Fiona Healy and Elizabeth McGrath (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [2])

By Nico Van Hout

London: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, London – Turnhout, 2020. 2 vols., Text and Plates. ISBN 978-1-912554-66-9; 978-1-912554-67-9.

Review published January 2022

In terms of problems of attribution, this is one of the most difficult volumes in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Head studies are, of course, working material kept in the studio and used again [...] Read More

The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Volume One (1590-1608)

By Anne-Marie Logan in collaboration with Kristin Lohse Belkin

2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 536 pp, 260 color ills. ISBN 978-2-503-59570-2.

Review published December 2021

Anne-Marie Logan’s catalogue of Rubens’ drawings, which to public knowledge, has been a very long time in the making, in fact going back as far back as 1965, when she started collecting material under [...] Read More

America and the Art of Flanders. Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America, 5)

By Esmée Quodbach, ed.

University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. 227 pp, 98 col. illus. ISBN 978-0-271-08608-8.

Review published December 2021

The scope for America and the Art of Flanders goes back to the symposium held at the Frick Collection in 2016. It comprises eleven essays by noted scholars who examine the American taste for the art [...] Read More

Rubens’s Spirit: from Ingenuity to Genius

By Alexander Marr

London, Reaktion Books, 2021, 256 pp, 87 illus., 67 in color. ISBN 9781789143997.

Review published November 2021

With this new title from the Reaktion series ‘Renaissance Lives,’ Alexander Marr continues his exploration of a topic that has preoccupied him for a number of years: the early modern discourse on the [...] Read More

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