Benjamin Schmidt's new book explores a shift in the way that Europeans thought about non-Europeans that occurred between the ages of European world exploration and the onset of colonialism, when [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Frans Hals
It is impossible to imagine our understanding of Frans Hals without Seymour Slive’s monumental contributions. His three-volume study published in 1970 and 1974 remains the most important catalogue [...] Read More
Denijs van Alsloot (vers 1568 ?- 1625/26). Peintre paysagiste au service de la cour des archiducs Albert et Isabelle (Pictura Nova, XV)
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
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