Book Reviews

Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 17)

By Abigail D. Newman

Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022. XXII and 325 pp, numerous ills., mostly in color. ISBN 978-90-04-42629-0

Review published September 2023

This book is based on the PhD thesis submitted to Princeton University by Abigail Newman, a recently appointed deputy curator at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. The author starts her survey with the [...] Read More

Frans Hals. The Male Portrait

By Lelia Packer and Ashok Roy

Exh. Cat., The Wallace Collection, London, September 22, 2021 – January 30, 2022. London/Dublin: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2021. 130 pp, 82 color illus. ISBN 978-78130-110-4

Review published September 2023

This book is the catalogue of a small exhibition held at the Wallace Collection in London, centered on the dashing portrait of a young man signed and dated by Hals in 1624 and nicknamed by [...] Read More

Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World

By Ulinka Rublack

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 448 pp. + 70 illustrations, HB, ISBN 9780198873105, $36.00.

Review published August 2023

Fire swept through the Residenz palace in Munich in 1729. One casualty was the central panel of Albrecht Dürer’s Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary Altarpiece, created between 1507 and 1509 [...] Read More

Rubens. Architecture and Sculpture: Rubens’s House (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII, 2)

By Nora De Poorter and Frans Baudouin Edited by Arnout Balis (†), Brecht Vanoppen, Isabelle Van Tichelen, Joannes van den Maagdenberg and Valerie Herremans. Transl. from the Dutch by Jantien Black and Lee Preedy

2 vols. London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. Vol. 1: 433 pp; Vol. 2: 236 illus., including in color. ISBN 978-1-912554-64-5

Review published August 2023

Like most volumes in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard (CRLB), Rubens’s House by Nora De Poorter and the late Frans Baudouin is a double volume. Volume One contains an introduction, eleven [...] Read More

Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Hercules to Olympus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 2)

By Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gerlinde Gruber, Fiona Healy, Eveliina Juntunen, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood. Edited by Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, and Brecht Vanoppen

2 vols. London/ Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. Vol. I: 552 pp; Vol. II: 393 pp., 416 illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-1-912554-86-7.

Review published May 2023

The writing of the catalogue raisonné of Rubens’s work is arguably one of the most ambitious projects dedicated to a single artist over the last several decades. The early volumes in this series, [...] Read More

The Painted Triptychs of Fifteenth-Century Germany: Case Studies of Blurred Boundaries

By Lynn F. Jacobs

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 305 pp, HB and e-book. ISBN 978-94-6372-540-8.

Review published May 2023

Lynn Jacobs has long been fascinated by Netherlandish altarpieces. Her pioneering Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550 (1998) explored the diverse forms, manufacture, and sale of often [...] Read More

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