In the last decades painters working in Brussels under the two Habsburg archdukes Albert and Isabella have received monographic treatments only sporadically compared to their Antwerp colleagues [...] Read More
Frans Francken de Oude (ca. 1542-1616): leven en werken van een Antwerps historieschilder (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, new series, 26)
Born in Herentals, near Antwerp, Frans Francken the Elder, pupil of Frans Floris, became a master in Antwerp in 1567/68, acquiring citizenship March 31, 1568. In order to distinguish between the [...] Read More
Gonzales Coques (1614-1684). Der kleine Van Dyck (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing XIII)
Gonzales Coques was an Antwerp painter of cabinet-size individual and family group portraits, all viewed slightly from below. As Lisken-Pruss explicitly states, unlike so many of his contemporaries, [...] Read More
Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image
Garlands of fruits and flowers surround eucharistic still lifes or pay homage to religious images or visions. Intended as trompe l’oeils, they form illusionistic frames within the picture frames. [...] Read More
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
Munuscola Amicorum. Contributions on Rubens and his Colleagues in Honour of Hans Vlieghe (Pictura Nova, 10)
Munuscola Amicorum – friends’ little gifts – is the title of a two-volume, densely written tribute to an admired and productive art historian: Hans Vlieghe. Your reviewer would have gladly added his [...] Read More