Information
Member of CODART since 2004
Exhibitions curated since 1999
CODART publications
Nico Van Hout, “Curator in the Spotlight“, September 2022.
Dr. Nico Van Hout, “The Unfinished Painting”, CODARTfeatures, September 2012.
Selected publications
2021
‘Der Vergessene Rubens. Drei Kopfstudien von Frauen im Rampenlicht’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Becoming Famous. Peter Paul Rubens, edited by Nils Buttner and Sandra-Kristin Diefenthaler, pp. 219-232. Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart from 2021 tot 2022.
Dresden (Sandstein Verlag) 2021
2020
Rubens. Study Heads, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX (2 vols.)
Nico Van Hout
Turnhout and London (Brepols and Harvey Miller) 2020
2017
‘“Rubens” and the Passion. Composition on the Basis of a Brainstorm Session?’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Rubens. The Power of Transformation, edited by Gerlinde Gruber, Sabine Haag, Stefan Weppelmann and Jochen Sander, pp. 71-77. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna from 2017 to 2018.
Munich (Hirmer Verlag) 2017
2016
‘The Unfinished and the Eye of the Beholder’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Unfinished: Thought Left Visible, edited by Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, Sheena Wagstaff, pp. 56-63. Catalogue of exhibition held at The Met Breuer, New York, in 2016.
New Haven, CT (Yale University Press) 2016
2014
Rubens and His Legacy
Nico Van Hout
Catalogue of the exhibitions in Brussels and London, 2014-2015.
London (Royal Academy of Arts) 2014
2013
‘Het frayste kaebient dat hier te sien is: Peeter Stevens en zijn kunstverzameling’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Vijfhonderd jaar verzamelen in Antwerpen, pp. 73-88, Leuven, 2013.
‘Jordaens and the Rubens Descent of the Cross in Lille’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Rubensbulletin, 2013, pp. 34-49
2012
The Unfinished Painting
Nico Van Hout
Antwerp-London-New York (Ludion/Thames and Hudson/Abrams) 2012
‘Tronies. L’emploi des têtes de caractères dans la peinture d’histoire flamande’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in C. Joubert (ed.), Jacob Jordaens et son modèle Abraham Grapheus, exhibition catalogue
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen – Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent, pp. 35-43.
Caen/Gent 2012
‘Jordaens of geen Jordaens? Over het gebruik van modelstudies in de zeventiende eeuw’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Jordaens en de antieken, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, pp. 55-59.
Brussels/Kassel 2012
2011
‘On the invention and execution of the Coup de Lance’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Rubensbulletin, 2011, pp. 2-39
‘Abraham en Melchisedek. Een proefdruk van een Rubensprent voor het Koninklijk Museum’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Rubensbulletin 2011, pp. 76-87
‘A Rubens discovery in Oslo’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Rubensbulletin 2011, pp. 88-89
2010
Rubens Unveiled. Notes on the Master’s Painting Technique
Nico Van Hout and Arnout Balis
Antwerp (Ludion-KMSKA), 2010
‘On dead colour’
Nico Van Hout,
Article in Antwerp Royal Museum Annual, 2008
Antwerp (KMSKA) 2010
2009
‘The Unfinished, the Uncompleted, and the Birth of the Non Finito’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in In-Finitum, Exhibitions International, A. Vervoordt (ed.), pp. 25-40, Leuven, 2009
2008
‘The Legend of St. Christopher: A Painting Attributed to Jan van Amstel Reexamined’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Simiolus, vol. 33, No. 1/2, Nine Offerings for Jan Piet Filedt Kok, pp. 43-52.
Stichting Nederlandse Kunsthistorische Publicaties, 2007-2008
2006
‘Schilderkunstige kanttekeningen bij de Rozenkransreeks in de Sint-Pauluskerk te Antwerpen’
Nico Van Hout
Article in K. Van der Stighelen (ed.), Munuscula Amicorum, contributions on Rubens and his colleagues in honour of Hans Vlieghe, Turnhout (Brepols) 2006, pp. 443-478.
2004
“The oil sketch as a vehicle for Rubens’s creativity”
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Peter Sutton and Marjorie Wieseman, editors, exhib. cat. Drawn by the brush: oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, pp. 74-81
New Haven and London (Yale University Press) 2004
ISBN-10 0-300-10626-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10626-8
Copyright Rubens, Rubens en de grafiek / Rubens et l’art de la gravure
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2004 in Antwerp Nico Van Hout and others
(Museum Plantin-Moretus/Stedelijk Prentenkabinet)
Antwerp, Québec (Ludion Press) 2004
Rubens in Lille
Nico Van Hout
Review of exhibition held in 2004 in Lille, published in The Burlington Magazine, 146 (2004), pp. 425-27
2002
Flemish masters: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens and their contemporaries
Nico Van Hout
Volume in Dossier series of the Rijksmuseum on highlights of the collection
Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) and Zwolle (Waanders) 2002
2001
‘Henri IV valait bien une galerie ! Rubens’ unfinished Luxembourg project’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Rubens agli Uffizi: il restauro delle Storie di Enrico IV, Florence 2001, pp. 23-40
‘Reconsidering Rubens’s Flesh Colour’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Boletín del Prado 19:37 (2001), pp. 7-20
2000
‘Rubens and deadcolouring: some remarks on two unfinished paintings’
Nico Van Hout
Essay in Concept, design & execution in Flemish painting (1550-1700) , Turnhout 2000, pp. 279-88
‘A Rubens self-portrait revealed in Florence’
Article in The Burlington Magazine 142 (2000), pp. 694-97
Rubens doorgelicht
Nico Van Hout
Volume in Dossier series of Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
Antwerp (KMSKA) 2000
1998
‘Meaning and development of the ground layer in seventeenth century painting’
Nico Van Hout
Article in Looking through paintings, Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 11, pp. 199-225
Baarn (De Prom) 1998