In the last decades painters working in Brussels under the two Habsburg archdukes Albert and Isabella have received monographic treatments only sporadically compared to their Antwerp colleagues [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Picturing Ludwig Burchard, 1886-1960. A Rubens Scholar in Art-Historiographical Perspective
The arrival of Ludwig Burchard’s archive and library in Antwerp in 1963 can be considered to mark the birth of the Rubenianum as an independent research center on Peter Paul Rubens. For the scholarly [...] Read More
The Triumph of the Eucharist: Tapestries Designed by Rubens
In the literature that has been devoted to Rubens's The Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series, Charles Scribner III has long been one of the most important contributors. His 1975 Art Bulletin [...] Read More
Rubens in Private: The Master Portrays his Family
This beautifully produced and much anticipated book is the companion to the first-ever exhibition focusing on the more private side of Rubens’s genius – a selection of self-portraits and portraits of [...] Read More
Two Books on Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces
Le Retable de la Passion de l'Église Sainte-Marie de Güstrow: Éude historique et technologique/ Der Passions-Altar der Pfarrkirche St. Marien zu Güstrow: historische und technologische Studie, under [...] Read More
Moving Sculptures: Southern Netherlandish Alabasters from the 16th to 17th Centuries in Central and Northern Europe
Some books are more necessary than others. This English re-edition of Aleksandra Lipinska’s study on Southern Netherlandish alabasters most definitely fills an important gap in the research on Flemish [...] Read More