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
Book Reviews
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
De Geboorte van Rubens/ The Birth of Rubens
This most welcome paperback publication in both Dutch and English (translated by Jantien Black) aims to settle the question once and for all as to when and where Rubens was born. Recorded in [...] Read More