Book Reviews

Rubens in London: Art and Diplomacy

By Gregory Martin

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2011, 208 pp, 67 b&w and 22 color illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-04-2

Review published April 2012

This book summarizes for a general audience the findings of Gregory Martin's two-volume The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting House( Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XV, London and Turnhout, [...] Read More

Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. III. Artists Working in Central Italy and France (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2011, 2 vols., I: 456 pp, 7 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 247 pp, 260 b&w ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-79-0/80-6

Review published April 2012

This publication, the latest in the on-going Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard series, represents the third part of Rubens's engagement with Italian art through copies and adaptations. It is devoted [...] Read More

The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective. Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder (c. 1550-1603), Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger (1580/82-1649), Susanna van Steenwyck (dates unknown-active 1639-c. 1660) (Pictura Nova, XII : Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)

By Jeremy Howarth

Turnhout: Brepols 2009. 557 pp, ISBN 978-2-503-51509-0

Review published April 2012

Carel van Mander heaped praise on Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder’s interior views of modern churches: the master was so successful in this genre that hardly anyone could exceed him. The biographer [...] Read More

The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris – Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria

By Susan Maxwell

Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. 234 pp, 75 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-7546-6887-9

Review published April 2012

Art historical publications in English are paying increasing attention to artists active in what is called Germany today. Life and works of the most famous early modern artists in Germany, especially [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel

By Larry Silver

New York: Abbeville Press, 2011. 464 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-7892-1104-0

Review published April 2012

The art of Pieter Bruegel is enjoying a renaissance. This is not limited to art historians, for whom the Bruegel scholarship industry has been in high gear for several decades. The artist's appeal [...] Read More

Willem Key (1516 – 1568): Portrait of a Humanist Painter, with an Appendix to the Oeuvre of Adriaen Thomasz. Key (Pictura Nova, XVII: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)

By Koenraad Jonckheere, in collaboration with Gijs Key

Turnhout: Brepols 2011. 345 pp, ISBN 978-2-503-53678-1

Review published April 2012

In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a study of the Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key, under Brepols’s “Pictura Nova” imprint (Adriaen Thomasz. Key (ca. 1545 – ca. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist [...] Read More

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