Book Reviews

Willem van den Blocke: A Sculptor from the Low Countries in the Baltic Region

By Franciszek Skibiński

Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. 394pp, 197 illus. IBSN 978-2-503-58489-8.

Review published March 2021

This first volume in the new Brepols Early Modern Cultural Studies series centers on the extraterritorial career of an individual Netherlandish artist, Willem van den Blocke, in order to offer larger [...] Read More

Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700

By Elizabeth Sutton, ed.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 190 pp, 39 illus, 8 col. pls. ISBN 978-94-6372-140-0.

Review published March 2021

The early modern Netherlands were, statistically speaking, a land of women: estimates suggest that during the seventeenth century women outnumbered men four to three. These women were not only [...] Read More

Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden

By Christoph Stiegemann, ed.

Cat. exh. Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn, July 24, 2020 – October 25, 2020. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2020. 576 pp, numerous illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-3-7319-0956-9.

Review published March 2021

The occasion for this exhibition, organized under the direction of Christoph Stiegemann, the actual director of the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in the Westphalian city of Paderborn, was the fact [...] Read More

Renaissance Metapainting

By Péter Bokody and Alexander Nagel, eds.

London: Harvey Miller, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2020. 348 pp, 6 b&w and 147 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-26-3.

Review published February 2021

The very cover of this impressive new anthology sends out a contradiction: its images feature details of the Washington Jan van Eyck Annunciation shutter, yet its editors are noted specialists in [...] Read More

The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Painting: The Inder Rieden Collection

By Gerlinde de Beer, with Franz Ossing and Jaap van der Veen, edited by Charles Dumas

Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2019. 4 Volumes. 348 + 348 + 368 + 320 pp; 900+ illustrations. ISBN 978-90-5997-268-1.

Review published January 2021

This lavishly produced four-volume boxed set accompanied an exhibition in 2019 at the Bredius Museum in The Hague devoted to the collection of Dutch marine paintings assembled by the London collector [...] Read More

Rubens. Genre Scenes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XVII)

By Nils Büttner

London: Harvey Miller. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019. 462 pp, 196 b&w and col. illustrations, 20 text ill. ISBN 978-0-905203-73-7.

Review published January 2021

This latest volume in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dedicated to Rubens’s genre pictures. It was only in the late eighteenth century that today’s generic term genre gradually was becoming [...] Read More

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