Anne-Marie Logan’s catalogue of Rubens’ drawings, which to public knowledge, has been a very long time in the making, in fact going back as far back as 1965, when she started collecting material under [...] Read More
Book Reviews
America and the Art of Flanders. Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America, 5)
The scope for America and the Art of Flanders goes back to the symposium held at the Frick Collection in 2016. It comprises eleven essays by noted scholars who examine the American taste for the art [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius. Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey Chipps Smith’s recent book addressing Albrecht Dürer and the nineteenth century is a most welcome addition to the increasingly large number of publications on Germany’s most celebrated [...] Read More
Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 4: Addenda); Medium-Sized Panels and Fragments of Stained-Glass Windows before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 5)
C.J. Berserik and J.M.A. Caen, Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 4: Addenda). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, [...] Read More
The Liefrinck Dynasty. The New Hollstein. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700
In the history of European printmaking, engravers seem to get all the ink. In contrast, woodcut designers, let alone their block cutters, often remain obscure, and only during the past generation, [...] Read More
Rembrandt: Studies in His Varied Approaches to Italian Art (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History)
Constantijn Huygens’s oft-cited remarks about the young Rembrandt’s (and Lievens’s) disinterest in traveling to Italy, justified in part by the wealth of Italian art that could then be found in the [...] Read More