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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

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

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