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
Book Reviews
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
Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image
Garlands of fruits and flowers surround eucharistic still lifes or pay homage to religious images or visions. Intended as trompe l’oeils, they form illusionistic frames within the picture frames. [...] Read More
Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in South African Public Collections
Bernadette Van Haute’s catalogue of Flemish paintings in public collections in South Africa refines Gillian Carman’s checklist published in 1994. Thanks to her further research a number of paintings [...] Read More
The Bruegel Phenomenon. Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger with a Special Focus on Technique and Copying Practice (Scientia Artis, 8)
Bruegel is our superstar of the secular. Every year, legions of fans flock to Vienna to experience Bruegel’s depictions of glorious vulgarity, the common man celebrated with uncommon virtuosity and [...] Read More