17th-Century Flemish

Theodoor van Loon

By Sabine van Sprang et al.

Exh. Cat. Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (BOZAR), October 10, 2018 – January 13, 2019; Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg (MNHA), February 15 – May 26, 2019. Brussels: BOZAR Books, Mercatorfonds, 2018. 236 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6230-237-2. In Dutch and French.

Review published January 2021

Despite the high esteem in which he was held by contemporaries in Italy and the Netherlands, the Brussels painter Theodoor van Loon (1581/82–1649) had until recently been largely ignored by modern [...] Read More

Rubens. Architectural Sculpture (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII: Architecture and Sculpture, 4)

By Valerie Herremans

Translated from the Dutch by Ted Alkins and Irene Schaudies. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019). 379 pp, 129 col. and b&w illus, 32 text. ill. ISBN 978-1-912554-31-7.

Review published August 2020

The most recent addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard by Valerie Herremans examines Rubens’s engagement with architectural sculpture. This book complements the previous volume of the [...] Read More

Rubens. Subjects from History: The Decius Mus Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIII, 2)

By Reinhold Baumstark and Guy Delmarcel

Translated from the German by Kristin Lohse Belkin and from the Dutch by Jantien Black. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019, 2 vols.: 778 pp. 161 b&w illus., 99 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-23-2.

Review published July 2020

Rubens’s first commission for a monumental cycle of decoration was the Decius Mus series, the first of his four tapestry cycles and the subject of this two-volume study of monumental scope. The [...] Read More

Inspiration and Emulation: Selected Studies on Rubens and Rembrandt

By Toshiharu Nakamura

Edited by Kayo Hirakawa. Bern: Peter Lang, 2019. 320 pp, 161 b&w illus., 9 col. pls. ISBN 978-3-0343-3373-3 (Print). E-ISBN 978-3-0343-3374-0 (PDF). E-ISBN 978-3-0343-3375-7 (EPUB).

Review published July 2020

Although the literature on Rubens and Rembrandt is prolific, most publications arise from scholarship conducted in North America or Europe. It is thus a pleasure to welcome this book of essays by [...] Read More

Alexander Keirincx (1600-1652). Der Baummaler – Die Gemälde

By Ursula Härting, with contributions by Richard P. Townsend and Rick C. Coone

Wommelgem: BAI, 2018. 200 pp, 284 illus. ISBN 978-90-8586-761-6.

Review published June 2020

The landscape painter Alexander Keirincx deserves our attention with regard to various aspects. Firstly, in his time the development of landscape painting achieves its definitive recognition as an [...] Read More

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

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