Jean-Baptiste Descamps was born in 1715 in Dunkirk, formerly a Flemish city which in 1662 had become annexed by France. He sought a profession as a painter and clearly wanted to orient himself towards [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Niklaus Manuel. Catalogue raisonné
While this year marks a half-millennium of the Reformation, that story is limited by its German bias, to the neglect of the movement in Switzerland, which climaxed in Bern and Basel in 1529. One of [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer & the Epistolary Mode of Address
This intriguing and ambitious book seeks to make a major contribution to the field by proposing the existence and importance of an “epistolary mode of artistic address,” which Dürer “played a large [...] Read More
Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678)
Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More
Rubens. Portraits After Existing Prototypes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 4)
Koenraad Jonckheere’s recent addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Portraits After Existing Prototypes, makes an important contribution to the understanding of a neglected but fascinating [...] Read More
Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)
Dan Ewing has written an impressive and essential book about one of the most important but least understood painters of Antwerp. In his famous description of the city, the Italian merchant and [...] Read More