Ada de Wit’s new book performs many services. Most narrowly, it is an insightful monographic treatment of the greatest decorative sculptor of the second half of the seventeenth century in both England [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
The Intimate Rembrandt
Our enduring attraction to Rembrandt and the vast art historical scholarship devoted to his works can be largely attributed to the artist’s boundless visual curiosity about everything he saw around [...] Read More
Nicolaes Maes. Dutch Master of the Golden Age
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)
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.
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)
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