17th-Century Dutch Republic

At Home with Ter Borch: Artist Family in Zwolle

By Marjorie E. Wieseman (curator)

Zwolle, Museum de Fundatie, September 6, 2025 – February 1, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Beatrice von Bormann, Sanne van de Kraats, Gerdien Verschoor, and Marjorie E. Wieseman. Zwolle: Wbooks, 2025. 176 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 9789462587359. Dutch edition: Thuis bij Ter Borch. ISBN 9789462587205.

Review published July 2026

Published in conjunction with the exhibition in Zwolle, this book is devoted to the art of the Ter Borch family, much of which consists of works on paper now housed in the Rijksmuseum since 1887. The [...] Read More

Carel de Moor 1655–1738: His Life and Work. A Catalogue Raisonné

By Pamela Fowler and Piet Bakker

Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2024. 352 pp, ca. 400 color illus. ISBN 978-90-5997-393-0 (hardback).

Review published July 2026

Over the past few decades, publications and exhibitions on Dutch art of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries have slowly but steadily transformed our understanding of this transitional [...] Read More

Govert Flinck 1615-1660

By Tom van der Molen

Zwolle, WBooks, 2025. 528 pages, 427 col. illus., 78 b&w illus. (in Dutch only). ISBN 9789462585904.

Review published June 2026

It was perhaps no coincidence that Govert Flinck first received a monographic study of his life and work well after his friend Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1926), and fellow Rembrandt pupil Philips Koninck [...] Read More

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

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17th-Century Dutch Republic