17th-Century Flemish

The Value of Taste: Auction Prices and the Evolution of Taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age Painting 1642-2011

By Peter Carpreau

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017. 295 pp, 83 b&w tables. ISBN 978-1-909400-48-1.

Review published December 2019

While a unique artwork cannot be easily reduced to objective data, Peter Carpreau effectively argues that the price paid for a work at auction is a data point that “reflect(s) taste at a certain time [...] Read More

Jacob Jordaens y España

By Matías Díaz Padrón

Madrid: Instituto Moll. Center for Research in Flemish Painting, 2018. 2 vols. ISBN 978-84-948585-0-5. (Now available in English translation, Brepols Publishers, ISBN 978-84-948585-3-6).

Review published December 2019

This is a welcome addition to the body of literature on Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), an artist still insufficiently scrutinized, notwithstanding a flurry of publications during the present decade. [...] Read More

Van Dyck’s Hosts in Genoa: Lucas and Cornelis de Wael’s Lives, Business Activities and Works

By Alison Stoesser

Pictura Nova, Studies in 16th- and 17th-century Flemish Painting and Drawing XIX. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018. 2 vols., 1028 pp, 683 b&w illus., 45 colour illus. ISBN: 978-2-503-53175-5 (set), ISBN 978-2-503-56906-2 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-2-503-56907-9 (Volume 2).

Review published November 2019

In a recent discussion of Flemish art dealers and agents who were active in seventeenth-century Italy, Isabella Cecchini claimed that scholars have paid far more attention to the presence of these [...] Read More

Rubens. The Jesuit Church of Antwerp (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII: Architecture and Sculpture, 3)

By Ria Fabri and Piet Lombaerde

Based on a manuscript by Frans Baudouin (1920-2005). Translated by Jantien Black and Ted Alkins. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2018. 370 pp, 109 b&w illus, 45 color illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-97-9.

Review published May 2019

Peter Paul Rubens’s extensive engagement with the Jesuit Church of Antwerp is the subject of the new book by Ria Fabri and Piet Lombarde, the latest addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. [...] Read More

Rubens. Allegories and Subjects from Literature (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XII)

By Nils Büttner

Translated from the German by Michael Foster, Lance Anderson and Orla Ambrose. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2018. 2 vols. ISBN 978-1-912554-11-9.

Review published April 2019

Two years ago, I had the opportunity to read for review purposes Part XI of Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard dedicated to paintings based on mythological narratives (Achilles to the Graces). That [...] Read More

Rubens. The Henri IV Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIV, 2)

By Alexis Merle du Bourg

Translated from the French by Jane MacAvock and Abigail Newman. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2017. 483 pp, fully illus. in color and b&w. ISBN 978-1-909400-96-2.

Review published February 2019

Artistic failures can make for successful art history. In his magisterial new contribution to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Alexis Merle du Bourg charts the inception, development, and [...] Read More

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17th-Century Flemish