The Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ groundbreaking exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, explores the social condition of class in seventy-five glorious [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his Landscapes: Ideas on Nature and Art, (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XX)
This well designed and handsomely produced book on Rubens’s landscapes brings together ideas that have clearly been developed over a number of years of thinking and research. It grew directly out of [...] Read More
Rubens. The Life of Christ before the Passion: The Youth of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, V, 1)
This beautifully produced two-volume addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dominated by the large number of representations of the Adoration of the Magi and the Adoration of the [...] Read More
The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection
Daniel Nijs, the Flemish merchant and entrepreneur, the subject of this excellent in-depth study by Christina Anderson, is best known for his part in the sale of the Gonzaga collection to Charles I. [...] Read More
Joos van Cleve: A Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Artist and his Workshop (Me Fecit, 8)
Modern scholarship on the Antwerp painter Joos van Cleve has been in high gear since Cécile Scailliérez first devoted an in-house exhibition to the artist at the Louvre in 1991. Important exhibitions [...] Read More
Der Braunschweiger Monogrammist: Wegbereiter der niederländischen Genremalerei vor Bruegel
Among the numerous painters active in the Netherlands during the sixteenth century, one of the most controversial is the Braunschweiger Monogrammist, so named after a painting in the Herzog [...] Read More