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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750
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
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)
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
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
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