It was perhaps no coincidence that Govert Flinck first received a monographic study of his life and work well after his friend Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1926), and fellow Rembrandt pupil Philips Koninck [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Willem Key and Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Fresh Perspectives on Their Oeuvres (Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XXVIII)
In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a monograph on the relatively little-known, under-studied Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545 - c. 1589): Portrait of a [...] Read More
Early Netherlandish Drawings 1400-1600
Accompanying an exhibition of its spectacular holdings of Netherlandish drawings, the British Museum has issued its richly illustrated definitive catalogue of collection highlights, the first in [...] Read More
Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth
Today, when a whale of any kind (what Ryan Gregg often calls “cetaceous units”) gets stranded on a beach, support is mobilized to keep the animal hydrated and to prepare the creature for return to the [...] Read More
Les précurseurs flamands: Rogier Van der Weyden et les frères Van Eyck au prisme de la perspective
While art history has long been anchored in the “Italian myth” – crediting Brunelleschi with the empirical invention of linear perspective around 1413 and Alberti with its formal theorization in 1435 [...] Read More
Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Paris to Venus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 3)
The publication of this two-volume study of Rubens’s works inspired by classical mythology is the final installment in the three-part series on this subject within the catalogue raisonné of his work, [...] Read More