17th-Century Flemish

Many Antwerp Hands. Collaborations in Netherlandish Art

By Abigail Newman and Lieneke Nijkamp, eds.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2021. 238 pp. ISBN 978-1-912554-73-7.

Review published October 2021

Growing out of a 2018 conference at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, this cluster of essays interrogates a significant phenomenon in Antwerp painting, especially from the seventeenth century: collaboration [...] Read More

Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World: Flandes by Substitution

By Eduardo Lamas and David García Cueto, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021. 98 p., 125 colour ill., ISBN: 978-2-503-58025-8.

Review published September 2021

The fourteen essays in this volume focus on the Spanish reception of Flemish painters and paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The essays are arranged in chronological order and [...] Read More

Anthony van Dyck & the Art of Portraiture

By Christopher White

London: Modern Art Press, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021. 295 pp, 261 illus. in color. ISBN 978-0-9568007-9-4.

Review published July 2021

In general, Anthony van Dyck has been better served by catalogues than monographs. Any study of the artist will have as its point of departure the monumental 2004 catalogue raisonné by Susan Barnes, [...] Read More

Mythological Passions: Titian, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez

By Miguel Falomir and Alejandro Vergara with Sheila Barker and Javier Moscoso

Exh. Cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, March 2 – July 4, 2021. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2021. 192 pp, numerous color illus. ISBN 978-84-8480-640-6.

Review published April 2021

It must have been one of the most satisfying and challenging tasks with which a museum curator can be faced. To be presented with six of the finest pictures ever executed, namely Titian’s poesie [...] Read More

Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden

By Christoph Stiegemann, ed.

Cat. exh. Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn, July 24, 2020 – October 25, 2020. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2020. 576 pp, numerous illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-3-7319-0956-9.

Review published March 2021

The occasion for this exhibition, organized under the direction of Christoph Stiegemann, the actual director of the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in the Westphalian city of Paderborn, was the fact [...] Read More

Rubens. Genre Scenes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XVII)

By Nils Büttner

London: Harvey Miller. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019. 462 pp, 196 b&w and col. illustrations, 20 text ill. ISBN 978-0-905203-73-7.

Review published January 2021

This latest volume in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dedicated to Rubens’s genre pictures. It was only in the late eighteenth century that today’s generic term genre gradually was becoming [...] Read More

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17th-Century Flemish