Book Reviews

Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Anatomical Studies. Edited by Nils Büttner and Brecht Vanoppen (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [1])

By Michael W. Kwakkelstein

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 218 pp, 31 b&w and color text illus., 112 b&w and color figs. ISBN 978-0-905203-80-5.

Review published December 2022

While this latest addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard may initially seem like a comparatively modest undertaking vis-à-vis other studies of aspects of Rubens’s oeuvre published in this [...] Read More

Artists’ and Artisans’ Collections in Early Modern Antwerp: Catalysts of Innovation (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)

By Marlise Rijks

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. xvi, 278 pp, 87 ill., mostly colored. ISBN 978-1-912554-05-8.

Review published December 2022

This beautifully produced book is a product of years of extensive research and study of a fascinating subject: the collecting culture in early modern Antwerp, with focus on the collections of artists [...] Read More

The Fertile Ground of Painting: Seventeenth-Century Still Lifes & Nature Pieces

By Karin Leonhard

Translated from German by Russell Stockman. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021. 304 pp, 162 illus., 5 maps. ISBN 978-1-912554-06-5.

Review published December 2022

Attempts to reconstruct how early modern Europeans understood the workings of visual representation have usually conceptualized the mimetic picture as either a mirror reflecting the world or a window [...] Read More

Philipp Hainhofer: Handeln mit Kunst und Politik

By Michael Wenzel

Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2020. 456 pp. Fully illustrated. ISBN 978-3422-98073-0.

Review published December 2022

An entrepreneurial furniture salesman from the south German city of Augsburg who mediated cultural exchanges between princely, ducal, and private patrons, the merchant Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) [...] Read More

Jacobus Vrel. Searching for Clues to an Enigmatic Artist

By Bernd Ebert, Cécile Tainturier and Quentin Buvelot, eds.

Translated from the Dutch, German and French by Bram Opstelten, David Radzinowicz and Diane Webb. Exh. cat. The Mauritshuis, Feb. 16 – May 29, 2023 and the Fondation Custodia, Paris, June 17 – Sept. 17, 2023. Munich: Hirmer, 2021. 256 pp, 224 col. illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-9.

Review published October 2022

This remarkable monograph was produced to accompany the eponymous international exhibition of Vrel’s paintings that will be on view at the Mauritshuis (Feb. 16 – May 29, 2023) and the Fondation [...] Read More

Renaissance in Franken. Hans von Kulmbach und die Kunst um Dürer

By Manuel Teget-Welz and Hans Dickel, eds.

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2022. 192 pp. 219 color and 8 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-7319-1228-6.

Review published October 2022

Visitors to the St Sebald’s church in Nuremberg are often struck by the colorful painted triptych epitaph for patrician Lorenz Tucher, which features a central scene of the Madonna and Child in a [...] Read More

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