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
Book Reviews
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
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