Book Reviews

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits

By Stichting Rembrandt Research Project. Ernst van de Wetering, with contributions by Karin Groen, Peter Klein, Jaap van der Veen, Marieke de Winkel, and collaboration by Paul Broekhoff, Michiel Franken, and Lideke Peese Binkhorst

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. 690 pp, 457 b&w, 250 color illus. ISBN 10-1-4020-3280-3 and 13-978-1-4020-3280-6

Review published November 2006

(The review first appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 3, 2006) Joseph Heller, in Picture this (1988, p. 59): "Rembrandt did some fifty-two self-portraits that have come down to us, [...] Read More

The Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic

By Herman Roodenburg

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2005. 208 pp, 8 color plates, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9474-8

Review published November 2006

The work of the cultural historian Herman Roodenburg has long been of interest to art historians who share his fascination with codes of civility in early modern social discourse. In this book, [...] Read More

Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship

By Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen

With contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum. [Cat. exh. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 5 - September 4, 2006; The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 21 - January 28, 2007.] Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2006. 274 pp, color and b&w illus. ISBN 0-89236-848-9

Review published November 2006

Ever since the correspondence between Jan Brueghel the Elder and his benefactor in Milan, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, was brought into circulation the reference by the Velvet Brueghel to Peter Paul [...] Read More

Rubens. The Adoration of the Magi

By Alejandro Vergara

With contributions by Herlinda Cabrero, Jaime García-Máiquez, Carmen Garrido, Juan José Pérez Preciado and Joost Vander Auwera. [Cat. exh. Museo del Prado, Madrid 30 November 2004 - 27 February 2005.] Spanish edition: Madrid: Museo del Prado, 2004. ISBN: 84-8480-074-1; English edition: Madrid: Museo del Prado, London: Paul Holberton Publishing. 242 pp, 33 color pls., 3 fold-outs, 82 illus, mostly color. ISBN 1-903470-39-0

Review published November 2006

This is an excellent catalogue of an exemplary show which studies the evolution of Rubens's Adoration of the Magi. The painting, now in the Prado, was commissioned for the Antwerp Town Hall in 1609, [...] Read More

Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens

By Lisa Rosenthal

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 312 pp, 8 color pls, 85 b&w illus. ISBN 0-521-84244-1

Review published November 2006

Lisa Rosenthal's Gender, Politics and Allegory in the Art of Rubens is an ambitious project, covering three fundamental aspects of Rubens's pictorial rhetoric. The aim of the book is to demonstrate [...] Read More

Peter Paul Rubens’ bildimplizierte Kunsttheorie in ausgewählten mythologischen Historien (1611-1618) (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 39)

By Eveliina Juntunen

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2005. 188 pp, 6 col. and 55 b&w illus. ISBN 3-86568-049-6

Review published November 2006

Only sporadic traces of Rubens's written art theoretical views have survived, making them a particularly challenging subject for scholars. Considerable attention has in recent years been paid to [...] Read More

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