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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Der amputierte Herrscher: Ein niederländisches Porträt des Sultans von Tidore

By Yannis Hadjinicolaou

Berlin – Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV), 2026. 112 pp, 29 color, 2 b&w illus.
ISBN 978-3-422-80369-5 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-422-80372-5 (ebook).

Review published April 2026

Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s new book introduces its topic, an anonymous seventeenth-century Dutch portrait of Saifuddin, Sultan of the North Moluccan island of Tidore, through the publication most of us [...] Read More

Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750

By Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam (curators)

Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, September 26, 2025 – January 11, 2026; Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, March 7 – May 31, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam. Veurne: Hannibal, 2026. 284 pp. ISBN 978-9493416277.

Review published April 2026

Those who favor exhibitions that dazzle through variety would have appreciated Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750. A collaborative project by curators Virginia Treanor [...] Read More

Opacity. Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic

By Angela Vanhaelen

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. 192 pp, 11 color, 39 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-271-09996-5.

Review published January 2026

In the Netherlands, the prosperous economic and cultural heights of the seventeenth century used to be called the “Golden Century” (Gouden Eeuw). But as if a veil has been lifted, recent revisionist [...] Read More

The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 79)

By Benjamin Schmidt and Thijs Weststeijn, editors.

Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025. 332 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-70585-2.

Review published December 2025

This edited volume, according to its introduction, purports to reevaluate and reframe the study of global Netherlandish art, at a moment when North Americans and Europeans continue to grapple with the [...] Read More

Vermeer’s Love Letters

By Robert Fucci (curator)

New York, The Frick Collection, June 18 – August 31, 2025.
Exh. cat. by Robert Fucci. New York, Rizzoli Electa in association with The Frick Collection, 2025. 96 pp, 60 color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-4594-1.

Review published December 2025

Published in conjunction with the special focus exhibition marking the long-awaited reopening of the Frick Collection, Robert Fucci’s Vermeer’s Love Letters reflects the aims of the show it [...] Read More

The Little Street: The Neighborhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Culture

By Linda Stone-Ferrier

New Haven, CT – London, Yale University Press, 2022. 208 pp, 98 color and 17 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0300259117.

Review published December 2025

Vermeer’s so-called “Little Street”, which gives this striking book its name and graces its cover, depicts fragments of two housefronts linked by adjoining courtyards. Rooftops cluster in the [...] Read More

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