Book Reviews

Frans Halsen’ aan de muur: omgang met familieportretten in Haarlem

By S.A.C. Dudok van Heel and M.J. Bok

The Hague: Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 2013. Distributed by Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum. 57 pp, with numerous illus. ISBN 978-90-805689-7-6

Review published April 2015

The brief publication under review, richly illustrated in color with drawn and painted portraits, coats of arms and seals, and furnished with family trees and transcripts of archival documents, came [...] Read More

Liechtentein Museum Vienna: The Hohenbuchau Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Golden Age

By Peter C. Sutton

Ed. by Johann Kräftner. Exhibition “Northern Baroque Splendor. The Hohenbuchau Collection from the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, The Princely Collections, Vienna,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, September 20, 2014 – April 12, 2015; Cincinnati Art Museum, June 27 – September 20, 2015, as “Rubens to Ruisdael,” with the same subtitle. Vienna: Liechtenstein Museum and Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2011. 494 pp, profuse illus. ISBN 978-85033-572-0 (English edition)

Review published April 2015

The splendid exhibition now at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (and this summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum), presents sixty-four of the ninety-seven paintings that are published in Peter [...] Read More

Rubens Unveiled, Paintings from Lost Antwerp Churches

By Valérie Herremans

Ghent: Snoeck Publishers; Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2013. 136 pp, 137 color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-6161-134-5

Review published April 2015

The Cathedral of Our Lady and the St. Paul's, St. James’s, St. Andrew’s and St. Charles Borromeo churches are Antwerp's five remaining monumental churches. These great monuments give an idea of the [...] Read More

Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Larry Silver

Farnham (Surrey)/Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate Publishing 2014. xiii, 297 pp, 160 illus., 48 in color. ISBN 978-1-4094-6233-0

Review published April 2015

Questions of artistic collaboration, rivalry, and dialogue find rich and ample material within Rubens’s career, oeuvre, and afterlife, as the abundance of recent scholarship demonstrates (e.g. Anne T. [...] Read More

Spectacular Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist

By Alejandro Vergara and Anne T. Woollett, eds.

[Cat. exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, March 25 – June 29, 2014; J. Paul Getty Museum, October 14, 2014 – January 11, 2015; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 15 – May 10, 2015.] Los Angeles: Getty Publications 2015. 112 pp, all color plates. ISBN 978-1-60606-430-6

Review published April 2015

The restoration of the Prado’s six oil sketches for Rubens’s Eucharist Tapestries, partially funded by the Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative, was the occasion for an exhibition at their [...] Read More

Otto Vaenius and his Emblem Books (Glasgow Emblem Studies 15)

By Simon McKeown, ed.

Glasgow: Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of the Word/Image Cultures 2012. 316 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN978-0-85261-92-2

Review published April 2015

Otto Vaenius and his Emblem Books builds upon the earlier thematic collections in the Glasgow Emblem Studies series, while also representing a step in a somewhat different direction: a closer look at [...] Read More

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