This beautifully illustrated book is a welcome interpretive study of Jan Brueghel the Elder, the result of nearly twenty years of immersion in his work that began on the completion of the author’s [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Making of Hispano-Flemish Style: Art, Commerce, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Castile
Ronda Kasl’s text is an indispensable addition to the literature on Isabelline art, an area often on the periphery of current art historical scholarship of the fifteenth century. Kasl addresses this [...] Read More
Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis
This volume is the latest addition to an exemplary series of collection catalogues that the Mauritshuis launched in 1993. It follows the same high standards of scholarship and production as the [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Rivals. History Painting in Amsterdam 1630–1650
Although nearly four decades have passed since the landmark exhibition Gods, Saints and Heroes (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980), history painting as an aspect of art in the Dutch ‘Golden [...] Read More
Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels
Modern scholarship has routinely presented the Brussels-born Michael Sweerts as an ally of the Bamboccianti, those mainly Netherlandish genre painters in Rome notorious for disregarding conventional [...] Read More
Aus aller Herren Länder. Die Künstler der “Teutschen Academie” von Joachim von Sandrart
Until very recently, one of the most neglected of all foundational primary sources in European painting history remained Sandrart's Teutsche Academie (1675; Latin edition 1683), including a reliable [...] Read More