Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat's choice of a title for her book echoes that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological examination of the relations between reflection, dialectic and intuition (1964) and [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Credo. Meisterwerke der Glaubenskunst
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
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])
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