This recent volume of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard offers Rubens scholars another important, well-documented, and occasionally surprising contribution to the invaluable series. With catalogue [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Workshop Practice in Early Netherlandish Painting: Case Studies from Van Eyck through Gossart (Me Fecit)
Workshop Practice in Early Netherlandish Painting: Case Studies from Van Eyck through Gossart, showcases cutting-edge developments in the longstanding and fruitful nexus between technical art history [...] Read More
Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679): Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp (Studies in Baroque Art, 5)
The book consists of four chapters referring to the main areas of the work of the Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679). Clearly structured, Van Kessel’s essential paintings are analyzed on the [...] Read More
Jacob Duck c.1600-1667: Catalogue Raisonné (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 16)
The seventeenth-century Utrecht genre painter Jacob Cornelisz Duck (c 1600-1667) is best known for his depictions of soldiers and prostitutes, but his oeuvre also includes scenes of tranquil [...] Read More
Stories in Gilded Frames: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings with Biblical and Mythological Subjects
Not surprisingly, the most respected genre of art, which appealed to the wealthiest and most educated buyers and fetched the highest prices for Dutch painters in the seventeenth century, was history [...] Read More
St Jacob’s: Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 253; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 13)
This book is as monumental and rich as the church that is its subject. In fact, rather than a study of a building, it is a wide-ranging narrative of the community that built it over a period of two [...] Read More