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A Celestial Jerusalem in Bruges: The Adornes Estate and the Jerusalem Chapel

By Jan Dumolyn and Noël Geirnaert, eds.

Veurne: Hannibal Books, 2024. 303 pp, more than 100 illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 694 6 (English edition), ISBN 978 94 6466 693 9 (Dutch edition), ISBN 978 94 6466 695 3 (French edition).

Review published January 2025

The year 2024 marked the 600th anniversary of the birth of the merchant and diplomat Anselm Adornes (1424-1483). Published to mark the occasion, the volume of essays under review here concerns the [...] Read More

Careers by Design: Hendrick Goltzius & Peter Paul Rubens

By Nina Schleif (curator)

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, June 13 – September 15, 2024
Exh. cat. edited by Nina Schleif. Munich: Hirmer, 2024. 304 pp, 194 color illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-4352-2.

Review published November 2024

The life and career of Peter Paul Rubens were defined by his foreign travels, both artistic and diplomatic. In a near-constant to and fro across Europe, two seemingly essential journeys and exchanges [...] Read More

The Rubens Garden: A Masterpiece in Bloom / Rubens’ Tuin: Een meesterwerk in bloei.

By Klara Alen

Veurne (Belgium): Hannibal Books; Antwerp: Rubenshuis, 2024. 144 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-9464941593.

Review published October 2024

This small book by Klara Alen, research curator of the historical garden of the Rubenshuis, was published in 2024 to mark the renovation and redesign of Rubens's garden, located in the heart of [...] Read More

Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age.

By Marsely Kehoe

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 244 pp, illus. in color. ISBN 978-9463723633.

Review published September 2024

Marsely Kehoe begins her recent monograph, Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture, with two big claims: that the Dutch Republic’s global reach was key to the cultural as well as the [...] Read More

Aemulatio Italorum. La reception culturelle des gravures d’Andrea Mantegna dans l’art germanique au temps d’Albrecht Dürer.

By Anne-Sophie Pellé

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2023.
333pp, 151 color illus. 978-2-503-60498-5

Review published August 2024

Albrecht Dürer’s drawings of Andrea Mantegna’s engravings Bacchanal with Silenus and the right half of Battle of the Sea Gods, both dated 1494, hold an important place in the long history of artistic [...] Read More

Mary, Mother of God. Devotion and Doctrine in the Visual Arts, 1450-1700.

By Barbara Haeger, Elliott D. Wise, and James Clifton, eds.

Leiden: Brill, 2024. 430 pp, 110 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-54951-7.

Review published August 2024

Numerous books survey with images the history of concepts about the Virgin Mary.[1] Yet the editors of this probing new volume have addressed both Marian theology as a source for visual topics in [...] Read More

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