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Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Paris to Venus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 3)

By Elizabeth McGrath, Gerlinde Gruber, Gregory Martin, Koenraad Jonckheere, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner. Edited by Elizabeth McGrath and Bert Schepers.

2 vols. London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2025. Vol. I: 557 pp; Vol. II: 419 pp, 315 illus., mostly in color. ISBN: 978-1-915487-63-6.

Review published May 2026

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

Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages

By Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut (curators)

New York, The Cloisters, October 17, 2025 – March 29, 2026.

Exh. cat. ed. by Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025, 144 pp. ISBN 9781588398055.

Review published April 2026

Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, edited by Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut, was designed to accompany an exhibition of the same title at The Cloisters in New York. [...] Read More

Der amputierte Herrscher: Ein niederländisches Porträt des Sultans von Tidore

By Yannis Hadjinicolaou

Berlin – Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV), 2026. 112 pp, 29 color, 2 b&w illus.
ISBN 978-3-422-80369-5 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-422-80372-5 (ebook).

Review published April 2026

Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s new book introduces its topic, an anonymous seventeenth-century Dutch portrait of Saifuddin, Sultan of the North Moluccan island of Tidore, through the publication most of us [...] Read More

Borman in Context; Un trésor dévoilé: Le Retable de l’Adoration des Mages du xve siècle conservé à la Basilique San Nazaro Maggiore à Milan. Un chef-d’œuvre bruxellois de Jan Borman; Borman. A Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors

By Marjan Debaene and Hannah De Moor (eds.); Emmanuelle Mercier, Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren, and Sacha Zdanov (eds); Marjan Debaene (ed)

Borman in Context
Edited by Marjan Debaene and Hannah De Moor
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2025, 326 pp, 189 color illus & 28 b & w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-60799-3.

Un trésor dévoilé: Le Retable de l’Adoration des Mages du xve siècle conservé à la Basilique San Nazaro Maggiore à Milan. Un chef-d’œuvre bruxellois de Jan Borman
Edited by Emmanuelle Mercier, Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren, and Sacha Zdanov
Brussels: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 2025, 277 pp, 237 color illus & 13 b & w illus. ISBN 978-2-930054-46-9.

Borman. A Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors
Edited by Marjan Debaene
London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2019, 312 pp, 363 color illus & 132 b & w illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-41-6 (hardcover) & 978-1-912554-46-2 (paperback).

Review published April 2026

The Bormans were a family of sculptors who dominated sculptural production in Brussels from the late fifteenth century through the first third of the sixteenth century. Their works significantly [...] Read More

Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750

By Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam (curators)

Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, September 26, 2025 – January 11, 2026; Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, March 7 – May 31, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam. Veurne: Hannibal, 2026. 284 pp. ISBN 978-9493416277.

Review published April 2026

Those who favor exhibitions that dazzle through variety would have appreciated Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750. A collaborative project by curators Virginia Treanor [...] Read More