Book Reviews

Cut in Alabaster. A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330-1530

By Kim W. Woods

Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. 418 pp, 170 color illus., 2 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-26-9.

Review published May 2019

Kim Woods’s book on alabaster sculpture of the Late Medieval and early modern periods is an important, welcome addition to recent writings on sculpture. Remarkably comprehensive, this is a [...] Read More

Rubens. The Jesuit Church of Antwerp (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII: Architecture and Sculpture, 3)

By Ria Fabri and Piet Lombaerde

Based on a manuscript by Frans Baudouin (1920-2005). Translated by Jantien Black and Ted Alkins. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2018. 370 pp, 109 b&w illus, 45 color illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-97-9.

Review published May 2019

Peter Paul Rubens’s extensive engagement with the Jesuit Church of Antwerp is the subject of the new book by Ria Fabri and Piet Lombarde, the latest addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. [...] Read More

Rubens. Allegories and Subjects from Literature (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XII)

By Nils Büttner

Translated from the German by Michael Foster, Lance Anderson and Orla Ambrose. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2018. 2 vols. ISBN 978-1-912554-11-9.

Review published April 2019

Two years ago, I had the opportunity to read for review purposes Part XI of Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard dedicated to paintings based on mythological narratives (Achilles to the Graces). That [...] Read More

Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance

By Suzanne Kathleen Karr Schmidt

(Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Leiden: Brill, 2017, xxvii, 439 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-35413-5.

Review published March 2019

When I first received this book, it fell open at pages 18 and 19, where identical illustrations had been reproduced on each page. I must confess that my first reaction (typical of an academic author [...] Read More

Rembrandt’s Roughness; Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India; Rembrandt’s Holland

By Nicola Suthor; Stephanie Schrader, et al; Larry Silver

Review published March 2019

Nicola Suthor, Rembrandt’s Roughness. Princeton – Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. 240 pp, 82 color illus, 79 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-691-17244-6. Stephanie Schrader, ed., with [...] Read More

Rubens. The Henri IV Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIV, 2)

By Alexis Merle du Bourg

Translated from the French by Jane MacAvock and Abigail Newman. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2017. 483 pp, fully illus. in color and b&w. ISBN 978-1-909400-96-2.

Review published February 2019

Artistic failures can make for successful art history. In his magisterial new contribution to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Alexis Merle du Bourg charts the inception, development, and [...] Read More

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