Studying artists in Rubens’s shadow is notoriously difficult for it takes time, empathy and a thorough understanding of Northern Baroque to distinguish between the inventions of the omnivorous Rubens [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Brueghel: Gemälde von Jan Brueghel d. Ä
Members of the Wittelsbach family were keen on the work of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and by the eighteenth century they had accumulated significant numbers of his works, and ones by members of his [...] Read More
The Bloemaert Effect: Colour and Composition in the Golden Age
If anybody deserves to be designated “the father of the Utrecht school,” it is Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651). A wildly successful teacher, Bloemaert attracted scores of students and shop assistants, [...] Read More
The Slave in European Art. From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 20)
Yet another of the splendid consequences for scholarship of the revival of the dormant project, The Image of the Black in Western Art, was the association of its images with the iconographic library [...] Read More
he Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen: Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht
Seaman's closely argued study addresses two entwined issues, the limits of Ter Brugghen's Caravaggism and the significance of "archaisms" – echoes of pre-Reformation Northern imagery – discernable in [...] Read More
Intérieurs d’Églises 1580-1720. La Peinture Architecturale dans les Écoles du Nord
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