If you can’t get to Montreal this summer to see the alluring exhibition Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, buy the companion book about the exhibition From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders by curator Katharina Van Cauteren. She is as good a writer as Rubens is a painter. Her prose entertains and educates in spellbinding fashion. You can’t read her book or see her show without being flooded by penetrating, lustful emotions about the golden age of Flemish art. ■
From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders by Katharina Van Cauteren, Cannibal Publishing, 2020
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