Rubens's Adoration of the Magi, today in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, originally hung in the Hall of the States in Antwerp's Town Hall where the Twelve Year Truce between the United Provinces and [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Documents concernant le commerce d’art de Francisco-Jacomo van den Berghe et Gillis van der Vennen de Gand avec la Hollande et la France pendant les premières décades du XVIIIe siècle
Erik Duverger will be remembered by all historians of Netherlandish art as a scholar who discovered and published enormous amounts of archival material. This publication, printed only just after his [...] Read More
Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections. Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel
Guy Delmarcel served as curator of textiles at the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels from 1975-1990 and as Professor of the History of Art at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1981-2002. His [...] Read More
The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings
Despite the fact that three times during the second half of the twentieth century the need to pay death duties or raise funds for other reasons led to the departure of substantial groups of drawings, [...] Read More
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Volume I: The Infancy Narratives
This book contains two separate and very different parts. First, in an introductory study (pp.1-96), Walter S. Melion closely scrutinizes The Art of Vison in Jerome Nadal's Adnotationes et [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric
For over a decade, Mark Meadow has explored how the humanist study of rhetoric informed the early Netherlandish "period eye." His first publication on this topic, in 1992, investigated the structure [...] Read More