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
Book Reviews
Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain
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
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)
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
Frans Francken de Oude (ca. 1542-1616): leven en werken van een Antwerps historieschilder (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, new series, 26)
Born in Herentals, near Antwerp, Frans Francken the Elder, pupil of Frans Floris, became a master in Antwerp in 1567/68, acquiring citizenship March 31, 1568. In order to distinguish between the [...] Read More
Cornelis Engebrechtsz (c. 1460-1527). A Sixteenth-Century Leiden Artist and his Workshop (Me Fecit, 6)
During the last decade, a growing body of literature has redefined our views of many leading Netherlandish artists working in the first half of the sixteenth century. These studies include the [...] Read More