Book Reviews

Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits

By Sara van Dijk and Matthias Ubl, with contributions by Friso Lammertse and Ilona van Tuinen

Exh. Cat., The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2021. 268 pp. 178 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-9032-650-0.

Review published December 2023

This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More

Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

By Adam Eaker

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 250 pp, 100 color and b&w illus. ISBN 9781913107345.

Review published October 2023

Antwerp-born Anthony Van Dyck occupies an important, if complex, place in the history of English painting. Breathtakingly talented in his virtuosic handling, during his time in England Van Dyck was [...] Read More

The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America

By Stephanie Porras; Aaron Hyman

Review published October 2023

Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More

The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two (1609-1620) (Pictura Nova, XXIII)

By Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin

2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2023. 732 pp, 291 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-59953-3.

Review published October 2023

With commendable promptness the second part of that major scholarly project, a catalogue raisonné of all Rubens drawings, has been published. On opening the two-volume set, one detail that immediately [...] Read More

Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature

By Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki, eds.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 426 pp, 147 illus. ISBN 978-9463729437.

Review published September 2023

This multi-author volume edited by Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki is a welcome addition to the environmental humanities. As its title suggests, the book draws our attention to differences [...] Read More

Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting. First English Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 62)

By Walter S. Melion

Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2023. ISBN: 978-90-04-52307-4 (E-Book); ISBN: 978-90-04-50838-5 (Hardback).

Review published September 2023

As an experienced and distinguished scholar who has spent a substantial part of his career studying Karel van Mander, Walter Melion[1] certainly knew what he was getting into when he took up the [...] Read More

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