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Peter Paul Rubens. Barocke Leidenschaften

By Nils Büttner and Ulrich Heinen

With contributions by Thomas Döring, Birgit Franke, Silke Gatenbröcker, Fiona Healy and Claus Kemmer, Barbara Welzel and Andreas W. Vetter. [Cat. exh. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, August 8 - October 31, 2004.] Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2004. 352 pp. ISBN 3-7774-2165-0

Review published November 2006

Among the many exhibitions of Rubens's work that took place in the year 2004, the Brunswick exhibition Peter Paul Rubens: Barocke Leidenschaften deserves particular mention. Here a topic is explored [...] Read More

Rubens and England

By Fiona Donovan

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 188 pp, 96 illus (color and b&w). ISBN 0-300-09506-6

Review published November 2006

Fiona Donovan has written a trail-breaking survey of Rubens's relationship with England, centred on the nine paintings he provided to decorate the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall Palace in [...] Read More

Rubens. The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall

By Gregory Martin

Edited by Arnout Balis (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XV). London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2005, 2 vols, 524 pp, 12 col. illus, 220 b&w illus. ISBN 0-905203-72-0

Review published November 2006

Although the text, as the author tells us, was completed at the end of the last century, Gregory Martin's two volumes on Rubens's paintings for the Whitehall Ceiling is the most exhaustive and [...] Read More

Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art. Systematic Catalogue

By Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005. 290 pp, 56 color, 176 b&w illus. ISBN 0-89468-348-9

Review published November 2006

The Systematic Catalogue series documenting the rich collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington continues to grow since its inception in the 1980s. Exactly twenty years have passed since [...] Read More

Mayken Verhulst (1518-1599). The Turkish Manners of an Artistic Lady

By Jan Op de Beeck

Mechelen: Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet, 2005. 114 pp, 54 b&w illus. ISBN 90-9019982-9

Review published November 2006

Regular readers of this Review might recognize the whimsically named Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinett from its earlier exhibition, De Zotte Schilders (2003), catalogue by Eric De Bruyn and Jan Op de [...] Read More

Hubert Gerhard und Carlo di Cesare del Palagio: Bronzeplastiker der Spätrenaissance

By Dorothea Diemer

Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2004. Vol. I, 420 pp, 273 b&w illus; Vol. II, Catalogue, 544 pp, 312 plates, color and b&w. ISBN 3-87157-204-7

Review published November 2006

Dorothea Diemer's tandem monograph on Hubert Gerhard and Carlo di Cesare del Palagio, two sculptors working at the late sixteenth-century court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria, reaches far beyond the [...] Read More

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