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Vita di Pietro Paolo Rubens & Vita di Antonio Van Dyck. Das Leben des Peter Paul Rubens & Das Leben des Anthonis van Dyck

By Anja Brug. Edited, commented and with an essay by Fiona Healy (Giovan Pietro Bellori, Le vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti moderni. Die Lebensbeschreibungen der modernen Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten, ed. Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Tristan Weddigen, and Anja Brug, VI)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. 334 pp, 27 col. pls. ISBN 987-3-8353-3621-6

Review published May 2022

Fiona Healy’s commented edition of Giovan Pietro Bellori’s biographies of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck is the sixth volume of the bilingual Italian-German edition of Le Vite de’ pittori, [...] Read More

Rubens. Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 3)

By Katlijne Van der Stighelen and Hans Vlieghe

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 408 pp, 164 illus., mostly colored. ISBN 978-1-912554-63-8.

Review published May 2022

In the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard four volumes are devoted to Rubens’s portraits. The first, by Frances Huemer, Portraits Painted in Foreign Countries, appeared in 1977, the second, by Hans [...] Read More

Harmony in Bright Colors: Memling’s God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels Restored

By Lizet Klaassen and Dieter Lampens, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 287 pp, 220 color, 30 b&w illus., with music CD. ISBN 978-2-503-58028-9.

Review published April 2022

Based on the 2017 symposium organized to celebrate the culmination of the sixteen-year conservation of Hans Memling’s God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, [...] Read More

Life of Lambert Lombard and Effigies of Several Famous Painters from the Low Countries (1572)

By Lampsonius, Domenicus

Edited and Translated by Edward H. Wouk. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute Publications, 2021, 165 pp., ISBN 9781606067406.

Review published March 2022

In his biography of Liègeois artist Lambert Lombard (1505–1566), Domenicus Lampsonius (1532–1599) laments the dearth of ancient literature available in clear, faithful translations from Latin. Until [...] Read More

Marie de Bourgogne: Figure, principat et postérité d’une duchesse tardo-médievale /Mary of Burgundy: ‘Persona’, Reign, and Legacy of a Late Medieval Duchess (Burgundica, 31)

By Michael Depreter, Jonathan Dumont, Elizabeth L’Estrange, and Samuel Mareel, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 475 pp. 66 illus. ISBN 978-972-503-58808-7.

Review published March 2022

The fame of the dukes of Burgundy has inspired numerous exhibitions, conferences, and monographs over the last century, yet the last of their line has only just begun to receive her due. While there [...] Read More

Nicolaes Maes. Dutch Master of the Golden Age

By Ariane van Suchtelen with Bart Cornelis, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Nina Cahill

English ed. translated by Lynn Richards. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 17, 2019 – January 19, 2020; National Gallery, London, February 22 – September 20, 2020. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, distributed by Yale University Press, 2019. Paperback, 224 pp., 184 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1 -5709 654-5.

Review published March 2022

This concise, well-illustrated catalogue was published to accompany the first monographic exhibition devoted to Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), presented in The Hague from October 17, 2019 to January 19, [...] Read More

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