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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

The Ghent Altarpiece. Research and Conservation of the Interior: The Lower Register (Contributions to the Study of the Flemish Primitives, 16)

By Griet Steyaert, Marie Postec, Jana Sanyova, and Hélène Dubois, eds.

Brussels: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), 2021. 210 pp, 420 color illus. ISBN 978-2-930054-41-4.

Review published February 2022

The massive polyptych known as The Ghent Altarpiece (Ghent, Cathedral of Saint Bavo) is one of the key monuments in the history of art. Originally comprised of twelve panels including nineteen [...] Read More

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe

By Caroline Walker Bynum

Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2020. 344 pp, 97 b&w illus. ISBN: 9781942130376.

Review published February 2022

In her latest book, Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, Caroline Walker Bynum delves even deeper into the material world of the devotional object during the long Middle [...] Read More

La dynastie Francken/ De dynastie Francken

By Sandrine Vézilier Dusart, ed.

Exh. Cat. Musée départemental de Flandre, Cassel, September 4, 2021-January 2, 2022. Paris: In Fine éditions d’art, 2020. 216 pp, numerous illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-2-38203-018-9.

Review published January 2022

During the last decade the Musée de Flandre in the picturesque Northern French city of Cassel has received a certain renown for its exhibitions of Flemish seventeenth-century painting, sometimes [...] Read More

Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Study Heads. Edited by Bert Schepers and Brecht Vanoppen; transl. by Michael Hoyle, with additional translations by Fiona Healy and Elizabeth McGrath (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [2])

By Nico Van Hout

London: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, London – Turnhout, 2020. 2 vols., Text and Plates. ISBN 978-1-912554-66-9; 978-1-912554-67-9.

Review published January 2022

In terms of problems of attribution, this is one of the most difficult volumes in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Head studies are, of course, working material kept in the studio and used again [...] Read More