“This lavishly illustrated volume allows readers to compare adaptations of Rubens's work and understand an artistic conversation that unfolded over two continents. The book will particularly absorb art historians interested in space. The book is readable and does not assume prior knowledge.”
— T. Nygard, CHOICE
“Carefully researched, lucidly conceived, and confidently written, this book leads its readers to the scattered, still little-known artworks in Latin America and the spaces and environments which they shaped into places of new artistic and religious experiences. . . . Both for the richness of its visual material and its rigorous and insightful methodological approach this is an important book, for scholars of both Latin American and European art. It encourages us to critically engage with artistic possibilities originating in different logics of copying and repetition and to be attentive to the multiple and dynamically shifting meanings of terms such as invention and ingenuity in diverse geographical and cultural contexts. Last but not least Rubens in Repeat is beautifully produced, and the publisher’s attention to a fine layout and the consistent high quality of the illustrations makes it a pleasure to read.”
— Christine Göttler, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
“[An] intellectually ambitious book [that] tackles a fundamental aspect of colonial painting.”
— Evonne Levy, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
“Rubens in Repeat does the important work of centering copying practices that were ubiquitous in medieval and early modern Europe as well as colonial Latin America and yet have been relegated for the most part to the margins of art history.”
— Amy Knight Powell, The Art Bulletin
“Hyman’s incisive new book not only relocates neglected works by Latin American colonial artists, but it also challenges wider art-historical methodology for a new generation of globally-minded scholars. This well-illustrated product of the Getty Research Institute revises ingrained concepts. It provides a provocative new ‘logic of the copy’, whether conforming or transforming or both, within regional artistic networks and viewing communities.”
— Larry Silver, Journal of the Northern Renaissance
“Thoroughly researched, generously argued, and copiously appointed.”
— Arthur J. DiFuria, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews