17th-Century Flemish

Rubens. Painter of Sketches. [Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, April 9 – August 5, 2018; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 8, 2018 – January 13, 2019.]

By Friso Lammertse and Alejandro Vergara

Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado / Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2018. 247 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-84-8480-471-0.

Review published July 2018

Peter Paul Rubens dominates Baroque art to a degree rivaled only by his Italian counterpart in sculpture, Bernini. This exhibition catalogue of oil sketches, presented and authored by Friso Lammertse [...] Read More

Dutch and Flemish Paintings: Dulwich Picture Gallery

By Michiel Jonker and Ellinoor Bergvelt

London: Dulwich Picture Gallery in association with D. Giles Limited, 2016. 352 pp, numerous illus. ISBN 978-1-907804-74-8.

Review published May 2018

The collection catalog is an unforgiving literary genre. Its purpose is to serve as a work of reference for scholars seeking information about individual works for their own purposes. At a minimum, it [...] Read More

Power and Grace. Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens

By Ilona van Tuinen

[Cat. exh. The Morgan Museum & Library, New York, January 19 – April 29, 2018.] New York: The Morgan Museum & Library; London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018. 108 pp, 67 color illus. ISBN 978-1-911300-37-3.

Review published May 2018

Exhibited in the inner sanctum, the Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery at The Morgan Library & Museum, Ilona van Tuinen assembled a beautiful, small collection of eighteen works by Rubens, Van Dyck and [...] Read More

Rubens. The Life of Christ before the Passion. The Ministry of Christ, with an introduction by Paul Huvenne. Translated from the Dutch by Abigail Newman (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, V, 2)

By Koen Bulckens

London: Harvey Miller, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2017. 360 pp, 149 b&w and 46 color illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-86-3.

Review published March 2018

This recent volume of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard offers Rubens scholars another important, well-documented, and occasionally surprising contribution to the invaluable series. With catalogue [...] Read More

Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679): Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp (Studies in Baroque Art, 5)

By Nadia Baadj

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2016. vi, 208 pp, 50 b&w, 52 color illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-23-8.

Review published March 2018

The book consists of four chapters referring to the main areas of the work of the Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679). Clearly structured, Van Kessel’s essential paintings are analyzed on the [...] Read More

St Jacob’s: Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 253; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 13)

By Jeffrey M. Muller

Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. xxiv, 631 pp, ill. in color and b&w. ISBN 978-90-04-31186-2.

Review published February 2018

This book is as monumental and rich as the church that is its subject. In fact, rather than a study of a building, it is a wide-ranging narrative of the community that built it over a period of two [...] Read More

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