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
Book Reviews
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
In neuem Glanz. Das Schächer-Fragment des Meisters von Flémalle im Kontext / With New Splendour. The Crucified Thief by the Master of Flémalle in Context
This book is the catalogue for a 2017-2018 exhibition at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung in Frankfurt. The exhibition (which, sadly, I have not seen) is a small one, highlighting a single painting, [...] Read More
Drawing and the Senses. An Early Modern History (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)
Caroline O. Fowler’s thoughtful study of early modern printed drawing books through the lens of the senses is a compelling contribution to the study of drawing both north and south of the Alps. The [...] Read More
Studies in Western Tapestry
These entries in the Studies in Western Tapestry series testify to the variety of approaches to their subject. Iain Buchanan is an art historian with numerous tapestry publications, while Jacqueline [...] Read More
Adriaen van de Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape
Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672) has long been admired by art historians for his delicate landscapes with their sensitive lighting and exquisite staffage, but the Dutch artist is not known with a [...] Read More