In his famous letter of 12 March 1638 to Justus Susterman, a painter to the Florentine court, Rubens concluded his long explanation of the iconography of his Horrors of War by noting that he had [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. II. Titian and North Italian Art (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])
Such is the richness of the material and such is the depth of the exegesis, it will have taken Jeremy Wood three volumes of text and three of illustrations, more than any other part of the Corpus [...] Read More
Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. I. Raphael and His School (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])
In the past eleven years the Rubenianum has been forcing the pace. It managed to bring out no less than five volumes of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, whereas only two had been published in [...] Read More
Rubens. Copies and Adaptions from Renaissance and Later Artists: German and Netherlandish Artists (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [I])
Almost thirty years ago I sat looking at a drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Morgan Library. Attributed to Hans Süss von Kulmbach, the sketch unmistakably betrayed Albrecht Dürer’s [...] Read More
Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence
Michael Cole’s interesting and important new book examines the production of Florentine sculptors during the second half of the sixteenth century. The work offers a significant contribution to our [...] Read More
Two Books on Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Walter Gibson, Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-520-25954-6. Gerald [...] Read More