After many decades, research into late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Netherlandish architectural painting seems to be gaining in momentum. One reason for the long stagnation may have been [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Young Van Dyck
More than thirty years after the pioneering exhibition in Ottawa curated by Ian MacNairn (1980), the Museo del Prado organised a comprehensive exploration of Anthony van Dyck's early years. The [...] Read More
Künstlerkonkurrenz in Antwerpen zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts: Janssen, Jordaens & Rubens
In this book (a doctoral thesis, University of Kassel, 2008), the author investigates the competition among artists working in Antwerp between 1608, the year Rubens returned from Italy, and 1620. [...] Read More
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Scholarship remains cumulative. The bracing ripple effects of resuming the project on The Image of the Black in Western Art are still being felt. First some of the main contributors to the crucial [...] Read More
Art after Iconoclasm. Painting in the Netherlands between 1566 and 1585
Extending the insights in his own new book, Antwerp after Iconoclasm(Yale/ Mercatorfonds, 2012; reviewed separately), Koen Jonckheere has also co-edited a complementary anthology of essays on the same [...] Read More
Antwerp Art after Iconoclasm. Experiments in Decorum 1566-1585
Like any history, Netherlandish art has its awkward in-between stages. In the early modern instance, this neglected period is defined by the generation between the death of Bruegel and before the [...] Read More