Book Reviews

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

Colard Mansion. Incunabula, Prints and Manuscripts in Medieval Bruges

By Evelien Hauwaerts, Evelien de Wilde and Ludo Vandamme, eds.

[Exh. cat. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, March 1 – June 3, 2018.] Ghent: Snoeck, 2018. 256 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6161-439-1.

Review published February 2019

This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Haute Lecture by Colard Mansion: Innovating Text and Image in Medieval Bruges, co-organized by Musea Brugge and Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge. Devoting an [...] Read More

Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries

By Stephanie S. Dickey, ed.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 387 pp, 187 b&w, 29 color illus.
ISBN 978-94-6298-400-4.

Review published January 2019

Stephanie Dickey, editor of Rembrandt and his Circle, dedicated this volume to Dr. Alfred Bader and Dr. Isabel Bader in 2017. The recent, sad passing of Alfred Bader on 23 December 2018, who [...] Read More

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