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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Nicolaes Maes. Dutch Master of the Golden Age

By Ariane van Suchtelen with Bart Cornelis, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Nina Cahill

English ed. translated by Lynn Richards. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 17, 2019 – January 19, 2020; National Gallery, London, February 22 – September 20, 2020. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, distributed by Yale University Press, 2019. Paperback, 224 pp., 184 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1 -5709 654-5.

Review published March 2022

This concise, well-illustrated catalogue was published to accompany the first monographic exhibition devoted to Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), presented in The Hague from October 17,  2019 to January 19, [...] Read More

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)

By Michael Zell

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 508 pp, 205 color illus. ISBN 978-9-463726-42-9.

Review published February 2022

The wide-ranging material discussed in Zell’s welcome study relates to the values ascribed to art objects. Quantitative monetary currency provides one measure, and others are qualitative: diplomatic [...] Read More

The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age; The Birth of Modern Political Satire: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) and the Glorious Revolution.

By Henk van Nierop; Meredith McNeill Hale

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 452 pp, 123 b&w illus. ISBN 9789462981386.

Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 304 pp, 44 b&w illus. ISBN 9780198836261.

Review published January 2022

Henk van Nierop, The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 452 pp, 123 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More

Rembrandt: Studies in His Varied Approaches to Italian Art (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History)

By Amy Golahny

317; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 48). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. xxx, 258 pp, 138 illus. ISBN 978-90-38266-4 (hardback); -2 (e-book).

Review published November 2021

Constantijn Huygens’s oft-cited remarks about the young Rembrandt’s (and Lievens’s) disinterest in traveling to Italy, justified in part by the wealth of Italian art that could then be found in the [...] Read More

Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition

By Stephanie S. Dickey and Jochen Sander, eds.

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, July 16 – September 6, 2021; Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, October 6, 2021 – January 30, 2022.] New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 2021. 384 pp, 250 color & b&w illus. ISBN 9780300249934.

Review published September 2021

That such a major exhibition dedicated to situating Rembrandt in the competitive art market of Amsterdam could be successfully presented this year, after delays due to the world health crisis and its [...] Read More

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History, Vol. 312/45)

By Martha Moffitt Peacock

Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020. 530 pp, 257 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-39903-7.

Review published August 2021

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age is a timely study by Martha Moffitt Peacock that reflects revived scholarly interest in female patrons, artists, [...] Read More

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