On his death in 1987, Harold Samuel, elevated in 1972 to Baron Samuel of Wych Cross, bequeathed the collection he had formed of 84 seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings to the Corporation of [...] Read More
Book Reviews
How to Create Beauty. De Lairesse on the Theory and Practice of Making Art
In this book Lyckle de Vries aims to restore Gerard de Lairesse’s Groot Schilderboek (1707) to its ostensive original function as “a guide for art lovers and critics.”(7) According to De Vries, the [...] Read More
Gonzales Coques (1614-1684). Der kleine Van Dyck (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing XIII)
Gonzales Coques was an Antwerp painter of cabinet-size individual and family group portraits, all viewed slightly from below. As Lisken-Pruss explicitly states, unlike so many of his contemporaries, [...] Read More
Johann Boeckhorst. Gemälde und Zeichnungen
Maria Galen presents the life and work of Johann Boeckhorst (1603/05-1668), a native of Münster (Westphalia, Germany) in a richly illustrated, well researched catalogue raisonné of his paintings (85), [...] Read More
Jordaens and the Antique
Jordaens and the Antique, organized twenty years after the last large scale monographic exhibition on the artist, then held in Antwerp, is a co-operation between the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of [...] Read More
Looking East. Rubens’s Encounter with Asia
The present publication accompanied a small but exquisite exhibition on Rubens's so-called Man in Korean Costume of 1617 in the J. Paul Getty Museum whose goal was to establish, one: whether the [...] Read More