One of the greatest catalogue projects in the history of art history is nearing its finish line. The entirety of Rubens’s output along with related sketches, drawings, variants, and copies engaged the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers. Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 355 Noviss. 8°.
Sabine Jagodzinski’s Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers addresses one of the most significant extant alba amicorum (friendship albums) collections of signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, [...] Read More
A Celestial Jerusalem in Bruges: The Adornes Estate and the Jerusalem Chapel
The year 2024 marked the 600th anniversary of the birth of the merchant and diplomat Anselm Adornes (1424-1483). Published to mark the occasion, the volume of essays under review here concerns the [...] Read More
Careers by Design: Hendrick Goltzius & Peter Paul Rubens
The life and career of Peter Paul Rubens were defined by his foreign travels, both artistic and diplomatic. In a near-constant to and fro across Europe, two seemingly essential journeys and exchanges [...] Read More
The Rubens Garden: A Masterpiece in Bloom / Rubens’ Tuin: Een meesterwerk in bloei.
This small book by Klara Alen, research curator of the historical garden of the Rubenshuis, was published in 2024 to mark the renovation and redesign of Rubens's garden, located in the heart of [...] Read More
Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age.
Marsely Kehoe begins her recent monograph, Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture, with two big claims: that the Dutch Republic’s global reach was key to the cultural as well as the [...] Read More