This past spring (2016), there was much activity surrounding the Dutch pictures belonging to the British Royal Family who hold one of the largest and most significant private art collections in the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Art of Clara Peeters
The Art of Clara Peeters was an especially welcome exhibition shown at the Rockoxhuis in Antwerp and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid not only because of the attraction generally held by [...] Read More
Das Paradies auf Erden. Flämische Landschaften von Bruegel bis Rubens
The Gemäldegalerie in Dresden has a rich collection of Flemish landscape paintings of the highest quality. Of the approximately 150 works from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, roughly [...] Read More
The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels. Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) (Studies in European Urban History [1100-1800], 37)
The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels: Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) makes a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on early modern confraternities. [...] Read More
Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution. Flanders, vol. 3: The Provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklist Series, vol. 3)
This weighty publication completes the third installment of C.J. Berserik’s and J.M.A. Caen’s monumental checklist of Netherlandish painted-glass roundels preserved in Belgian public and private [...] Read More
Art as History, History as Art: Jheronimus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Assembling Knowledge, not Setting Puzzles (Nijmegen Art Historical Studies, XXI)
How should one write about historical objects in an era of rising right-wing extremism, populist nationalism, and various flavors of separatism? At a time when disparities of wealth have taken on [...] Read More