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
Book Reviews
Rubens’s Spirit: from Ingenuity to Genius
With this new title from the Reaktion series ‘Renaissance Lives,’ Alexander Marr continues his exploration of a topic that has preoccupied him for a number of years: the early modern discourse on the [...] Read More
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified
As its title’s use of the word “reception” suggests, this anthology presents essays on responses to prints. The foregrounding of reception may daunt some scholars. After all, as an interpretive model, [...] Read More
Many Antwerp Hands. Collaborations in Netherlandish Art
Growing out of a 2018 conference at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, this cluster of essays interrogates a significant phenomenon in Antwerp painting, especially from the seventeenth century: collaboration [...] Read More
Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World: Flandes by Substitution
The fourteen essays in this volume focus on the Spanish reception of Flemish painters and paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The essays are arranged in chronological order and [...] Read More
Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition
That such a major exhibition dedicated to situating Rembrandt in the competitive art market of Amsterdam could be successfully presented this year, after delays due to the world health crisis and its [...] Read More