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Credo. Meisterwerke der Glaubenskunst

By Alexandra Dern and Ursula Härting, eds.

[Cat. exh. Mettingen, Draiflessen, October 16, 2010 - January 9, 2011.] Mettingen: Forum der Draiflessen Collection, 2010. 320 pp, numerous illus. ISBN 978-3-942359-00-9 (German); 978-3-942359-00-3 (Dutch); 978-3-942359-00-6 (English)

Review published November 2011

This richly documented catalogue, which was published in three languages, accompanied the exhibition organized in 2010-11 by the 'Forum der Draiflessen Collection' in Mettingen. The Draiflessen [...] Read More

Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620. Visual and Poetic Memory

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine

Farnham (Surrey)/ Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate, 2009. ix, 223 pp, ISBN 978-0-7546-6771-1

Review published November 2011

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

Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. II. Titian and North Italian Art (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [2])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2010, 2 vols., I: 443 pp, 4 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 231 pp, 223 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-40-0

Review published November 2011

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])

By Jeremy Wood

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2010, 2 vols., I: 448 pp, 28 b&w illus., 16 col. pls.; II: 269 pp, 263 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-39-4

Review published November 2011

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])

By Kristin Lohse Belkin

London: Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout), 2009, 2 vols., I: 280 pp, 4 b&w illus., 21 color pls; II: 320 pp, 378 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-38-7

Review published November 2011

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

By Michael Cole

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 364 pp, 170 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-691-14744-4

Review published November 2011

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

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