Book Reviews

Embracing Brussels: Art and Culture in the Court City, 1600-1800

By Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Leen Kelchtermans, and Koenraad Brosens, eds.

With contributions by Veerle De Laet, Harald Deceulaer, Karel Porteman, Maartje De Wilde, Elisabeth Bruyns, Beatrijs Wolters van der Wey, Eelco Nagelsmit, Dries Lyna, Piet Stryckers, Leen Kelchtermans, Jean-Philippe Huys, Pierre-Yves Kairis, Koenraad Brosens and Guy Delmarcel. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2013. 277 pp, 120 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54228-7

Review published November 2014

The present volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in December 2010 dedicated to art and art production in Brussels, organized by the Faculty of Arts, KULeuven, and the Royal Museum of [...] Read More

Un Allemand à la cour de Louis XIV. De Dürer à Van Dyck, la collection nordique d’Everhard Jabach

By Blaise Ducos and Olivia Savatier Sjöholm, eds.

Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, June 20 – September 16, 2013. Paris: Musée du Louvre 2013. 208 pp, 86 col. pls. ISBN 978-2-84741-274-0

Review published November 2014

Among the selection of magnificent drawings by Northern artists featuring Dürer (6), Hans Holbein the Younger (2), Paul Bril (5), Peter Paul Rubens (2 copies, 4 retouched anon. Italian) and Anthony [...] Read More

The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and his Courtiers

By Francis Haskell

Edited with an introduction by Karen Serres. New Haven/London: Yale University Press 2013. 256 pp, 80 color and 40 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-19012-0

Review published November 2014

The King’s Pictures is a beautifully produced publication of the first Mellon lectures given in London in 1994 by Francis Haskell. Haskell died six years later, and this volume is as much an act of [...] Read More

Visions of the Courtly Body: The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court

By Christiane Hille

Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2012. 301 pp, 58 illus., 6 in color. ISBN 978-3-05-005908-2

Review published November 2014

Christiane Hille is a notable German scholar of the younger generation teaching as an assistant professor in Munich. This, her first book, is a study of painting and the masque in the reigns of Kings [...] Read More

Weltzeit und Endzeit Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä

By Weltzeit und Endzeit Die "Monatsbilder" Pieter Bruegels d. Ä

Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2012. 383 pp, 102 b&w, 6 color illus. ISBN 978-3-7705-5147-7

Review published November 2014

Kaschek’s book, based on his doctoral dissertation completed at the Technische Universität Dresden, offers a radical reassessment of Bruegel’s famous series The Months. Kaschek ultimately reads the [...] Read More

Herri met de Bles: Les Ruses du paysage au temps du Bruegel et d’Érasme

By Michel Weemans

Paris: Hazan 2013. 320 pp, 202 illus., mostly color. ISBN 978-2-7541-0689-4

Review published November 2014

Those familiar with Michel Weemans’s recent books, as contributor to the exhibition catalogue, Fables du paysage flamande: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril, edited by Alain Tapie (Palais des Beaux-Arts, [...] Read More

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