That Inspired by Italy was the first exhibition of Italianate landscape painting in Great Britain is 'really a theme for the philosopher.' The phrase comes from a relevant source, Henry James's [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Prosper Arents: De Bibliotheek van Pieter Pauwel Rubens: een reconstructie
In 1675 Joachim von Sandrart wrote of Peter Paul Rubens, whom he had met personally, that his erudition was marked by 'extraordinary genius, wit and understanding.' Art historians have always seen [...] Read More
Rubens. Drawing on Italy
The outstanding exhibition, Rubens, Drawing on Italy, shown in Edinburgh and Nottingham, shed considerable light on the highly complex subject of Rubens's reworking and 'improvement' of drawings by [...] Read More
Rubens. Palazzi di Genova. Architectural Drawings and Engravings (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII, 1)
The recently published volume (in 2 parts) of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens, is most exceptional, in that it has so little to do with [...] Read More
Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680
My first impression of the exhibition, which I saw in Essen, was that it was unusually large and impressive for a thematically-focused show (126 works). It comprised eleven sections correspond ing to [...] Read More
Die Architectura von Hans Vredeman de Vries. Entwicklung der Renaissancearchitektur in Mitteleuropa (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 99)
The author presented her study of Hans Vredeman de Vries's 1577 treatise ARCHITECTURA Oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruvius, as a habilitation thesis in Braunschweig in 2000. Part One, which [...] Read More