Count Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), Prince bishop of Bamberg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and as such Chancellor of the Reich, was the second most powerful man after the German Emperor. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
A Journey to Flanders and Holland
Anyone familiar with Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses knows his opinion that Flemish and Dutch paintings were inferior to Italian. While he admired the skillful descriptiveness and precise brushwork [...] Read More
Miniatura or the Art of Limning
Edward Norgate was a gentleman employed in the service of the early Stuart kings. Emerging from an academic background (his father was vice-chancellor of Cambridge), he evinced strong artistic [...] Read More
Vlaamse schilders en de dageraad van Hollands Gouden Eeuw (1585-1630)
Strangely, the pictorial linkages between Flanders and Holland in the seventeenth century remain one of the mysterious, grey areas in the history of art, exemplifying the Netherlandish proverb of [...] Read More
Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700
This is a cautious, lucid and full overview of the visual arts in seventeenth-century Flanders with a welcome breadth of illustration. An excellent range of colour plates allows the reader to [...] Read More