This publication honors a promise: most immediately, it keeps the promise made to the research institutions that have supported the project over many years (VNC - Vlaams Nederlands Comité, NWO – [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Embracing Brussels: Art and Culture in the Court City, 1600-1800
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
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
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
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
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