He writes on the history of architecture and art of the early modern period and on the history of architecture theory. Delbeke is also an architecture critic. He is co-publisher of Bernini’s Biographies: Critical Essays (Penn State University Press, 2006) and Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2011). Delbeke’s The Art of Religion: Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Early Modern Rome is to be published shortly by Ashgate. A collection of his architecture critiques, Buildings as Metaphors, will come out in 2012. [last updated in 2011]