Book Reviews

Rubens. The Henri IV Series

By Alexis Merle du Bourg

Translated from the French by Jane MacAvock and Abigail Newman (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIV, 2). 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

Colard Mansion. Incunabula, Prints and Manuscripts in Medieval Bruges

By Evelien Hauwaerts, Evelien de Wilde and Ludo Vandamme, eds.

[Exh. cat. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, March 1 – June 3, 2018.] Ghent: Snoeck, 2018. 256 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6161-439-1.

Review published February 2019

This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Haute Lecture by Colard Mansion: Innovating Text and Image in Medieval Bruges, co-organized by Musea Brugge and Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge. Devoting an [...] Read More

Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries

By Stephanie S. Dickey, ed.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 387 pp, 187 b&w, 29 color illus.
ISBN 978-94-6298-400-4.

Review published January 2019

Stephanie Dickey, editor of Rembrandt and his Circle, dedicated this volume to Dr. Alfred Bader and Dr. Isabel Bader in 2017. The recent, sad passing of Alfred Bader on 23 December 2018, who [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works.

By Jürgen Müller and Thomas Schauerte

Cologne: Taschen, 2018. 492 pp. ISBN 978-3-8365-5689-7

Review published January 2019

The year 2019 has already become the Year of Bruegel, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the artist's death (ca. 1525-1569). The once-in-a lifetime show in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum [...] Read More

Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 14)

By Tine Luk Meganck

Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2017. Xxii, 324 pp, 156 col. illus. ISBN: 978-90-04-34248-4.

Review published October 2018

Erudite Eyes considers a range of objects – prints, maps, drawings, poems and paintings – produced by a network of artists, merchants, and humanists around geographer Abraham Ortelius. Foregrounding [...] Read More

Netherlandish Culture of the Sixteenth Century (Studies in European Urban History, 41)

By Ethan Matt Kavaler and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 388 pp, 110 b&w illus., 3 tables. ISBN 978-2-503-57582-7.

Review published September 2018

Part of a series about urban history and culture (Bruaene of Ghent University is one of the series’ editors), this new anthology (based on a 2012 conference) offers nineteen impressive articles on a [...] Read More

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