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
Book Reviews
Denkende Körper – Formende Hände: Handeling in Kunst und Kunsttheorie der “Rembrandtisten” (Actus et Imago, Berliner Schriften für Bildaktforschung und Verkörperungsphilosophie, XVIII)
Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s book, based on his PhD thesis, is concerned with Rembrandtesque handeling in the works of those students of Rembrandt who adhered to their master’s style after it began to go [...] Read More
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Catherine H. Lusheck’s book Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing is a new publication on Rubens’s drawings in Routlegde’s Visual Culture in Early Modernity series. Lusheck examines Rubens’s early [...] Read More
Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale
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
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