Marjorie E. Wieseman

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Peter C. Sutton

Toledo Museum of Art

Mr Peter C Sutton

Overzicht van het werk van Rubens (1577-1640) en zijn tijdgenoten.

The Age of Rubens

Robert J. Boardingham

European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Prized Possessions

Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)

Jonathan Bikker

Bruce Museum of Arts and Science (Greenwich, Estados Unidos)

A remarkably versatile man, Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) was the preeminent painter of cityscapes in the Netherlands and the first artist to capture all the beauty of the urban scene. Notwithstanding his achievements as an artist, Van der Heyden was even more famous in his own time as an inventor and engineer: he invented firefighting equipment that set the standard throughout Europe for two centuries, and he perfected the streetlamp. This is the first book in English devoted to Van der Heyden. It includes recent discoveries about his fascinating life and offers an introduction to his ravishing art. The book includes a general discussion of Van der Heyden’s work, entries on 40 of his paintings, illustrations of about 100 of his paintings, as well as supplemental drawings and prints. Focusing mainly on the bustling city of Amsterdam, he also recorded other Dutch, Flemish, and German cities with a brilliant palette and exceptionally detailed technique. Often innovative in his composition, he was the first artist to create imaginary scenes by rearranging existing city views and known buildings.

Jan van der Heyden

Salvador Dalí

Eric Zafran

Wadsworth Atheneum

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Antonio Pinchot

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Explores Dali's experiments with perspectives, offering more than one hundred color and sixty-one black and white illustrations of the artist's optical illusions.

Dalí's Optical Illusions

Nico van Hout

Peter Paul Rubens

Oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens—created at speed and in the heat of invention with a colorful loaded brush—convey all the spontaneity of the great Flemish painter’s creative process. This ravishing book draws from both private and public collections to present in full color 40 of Rubens’s oil sketches. Viewers will find in these informal paintings an enchanting intimacy and gain a new appreciation of Rubens’s capacity for invention and improvisation, and of his special genius for dramatic design and coloristic brilliance. The book investigates the role of the oil sketch in Rubens’s work; the development of the artist’s themes and narratives in his multiple sketches; and the history of the appreciation of his oil sketches. It also explores some of the unique aspects of his techniques and materials. By revealing the oil sketches as the most direct record of Rubens’s creative process, the book presents him as the greatest and most fluent practitioner of this vibrant and vital medium.

Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens

Drawn by the Brush

Peter C. Sutton

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