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
Book Reviews
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
Art on Paper: Ephemeral Art in the Low Countries. The Triumphal Entry of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella into Antwerp, 1599
Art on Paper by Tamar Cholcman is based on the author’s 2006 dissertation. Its study of ephemeral art in the Low Countries uses one book, the 1602 festival book by Johannes Bochius, Historica [...] Read More
Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague
Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), who is best known for his depictions of amorous couples in impossible positions – if he is remembered by the general public at all – created his own Mannerist [...] Read More
Pleasure and Piety. The Art of Joachim Wtewael
The exhibition dedicated to Joachim Wtewael in Utrecht, Washington and Houston richly illuminates this painter’s work, including surprisingly great differences in scale and subject. Wtewael’s reduced [...] Read More