With the groundbreaking recent exhibition and catalogue, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman et al. (2011; reviewed here November 2011, 22-23), study of the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). A Biography (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XVI)
This book constitutes the most comprehensive study to date of Teniers’s life and work. It reviews and updates the source material, and constructs a new image of Teniers as a painter. Hans Vlieghe’s [...] Read More
Pieter Soutman. Life and Oeuvre. (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, vol. 12)
A monograph on the Dutch artist Pieter Claesz. Soutman (c. 1593/1601-1657) has long been one of the desiderata in the history of seventeenth-century northern art since he combined the art of Holland [...] Read More
Rubens. Subjects from History 3: The Constantine Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIII [3])
In this latest installment of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Koenraad Brosens grapples with the twelve-part Story of Constantinetapestry series which Peter Paul Rubens designed in 1622 and [...] Read More
Der katholische Rubens. Heilige und Märtyrer (Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung)
Nobody ever doubted that Rubens was a Roman catholic, but art history has not yet given much attention to this fact. In a handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated, book, Willibald Sauerländer [...] Read More
The Shadow of Rubens: Print Publishing in 17th-Century Antwerp (The Print Collection of the Royal Library, 2)
In her book, The Shadow of Rubens: Print Publishing in 17th-Century Antwerp, Ann Diels provides a study of the printmaking activities of three of Antwerp’s most important, yet relatively unheralded [...] Read More