One can only hope that Elizabeth Honig's astute book will find a broad scholarly audience equal to its scope and implications. For her ostensible subject is topical: Antwerp market-scene paintings, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Kunst voor de Markt/Art for the Market, 1500-1700 (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 50, 1999)
When the author of the first history of Netherlandish art, Karel van Mander, looked back on the origins of his subject, he would note that "in the time of the two Van Eycks, the city of Bruges was [...] Read More
Hof-, Staats- en Stadsceremonies/Court, State and City Ceremonies (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 49, 1998)
The Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek stands apart from the majority of art history periodicals by its policy of devising every issue around a single theme. Recent volumes devoted to a single [...] Read More
Bruges and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus
A second volume to the catalogue appears as: Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, ed., Bruges et la Renaissance. De Memling à Pourbus: Notices [Cat. Exh.] Ghent: Ludion/Flammarion Stichting Kunstboek, 1998. [...] Read More
Rubens and His Spanish Patrons
Probably the most internationally active painter of his day, Rubens catered to the artistically-refined taste of the courts of England, France and Spain by providing individual works, often of a [...] Read More
Kunst in de Bank. een keuze van Rubens tot Magritte
The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, October 24, 1997 - January 4, 1998. The Belgian branch of the Paris bank Paribas (now [...] Read More