When Swedish Ambassador Pieter Spiering agreed to pay young Gerrit Dou 500 guilders annually for the right of first refusal of the painter’s panels, the aristocrat effectively purchased social capital [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Rembrandt’s Roughness; Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India; Rembrandt’s Holland
Nicola Suthor, Rembrandt’s Roughness. Princeton – Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. 240 pp, 82 color illus, 79 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-691-17244-6. Stephanie Schrader, ed., with [...] Read More
Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries
Stephanie Dickey, editor of Rembrandt and his Circle, dedicated this volume to Dr. Alfred Bader and Dr. Isabel Bader in 2017. The recent, sad passing of Alfred Bader on 23 December 2018, who [...] Read More
Jan Lievens, Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Early Leiden Work 1623–1632
This book presents an ambitious and original reappraisal of the early work of Jan Lievens (1607–1674), the Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker whose formative period in Leiden was intimately [...] Read More
Netherlandish Art in its Global Context (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 66, 2016)
In a 2006 state-of-the field essay, I wrote that "scholars have recently begun to examine the contact between Europe's art and other regions of the world after 1492."[i] In the dozen years since then, [...] Read More
Dutch and Flemish Paintings: Dulwich Picture Gallery
The collection catalog is an unforgiving literary genre. Its purpose is to serve as a work of reference for scholars seeking information about individual works for their own purposes. At a minimum, it [...] Read More
Jacob Duck c.1600-1667: Catalogue Raisonné (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 16)
The seventeenth-century Utrecht genre painter Jacob Cornelisz Duck (c 1600-1667) is best known for his depictions of soldiers and prostitutes, but his oeuvre also includes scenes of tranquil [...] Read More
Stories in Gilded Frames: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings with Biblical and Mythological Subjects
Not surprisingly, the most respected genre of art, which appealed to the wealthiest and most educated buyers and fetched the highest prices for Dutch painters in the seventeenth century, was history [...] Read More
Drawing and the Senses. An Early Modern History (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)
Caroline O. Fowler’s thoughtful study of early modern printed drawing books through the lens of the senses is a compelling contribution to the study of drawing both north and south of the Alps. The [...] Read More
Adriaen van de Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape
Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672) has long been admired by art historians for his delicate landscapes with their sensitive lighting and exquisite staffage, but the Dutch artist is not known with a [...] Read More
Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678). [Cat. exh. Stedlijk Museum, Alkmaar, September 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017.]
Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More
Denkende Körper – Formende Hände: Handeling in Kunst und Kunsttheorie der “Rembrandtisten” (Actus et Imago, Berliner Schriften für Bildaktforschung und Verkörperungsphilosophie, XVIII)
Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s book, based on his PhD thesis, is concerned with Rembrandtesque handeling in the works of those students of Rembrandt who adhered to their master’s style after it began to go [...] Read More
Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis
This volume is the latest addition to an exemplary series of collection catalogues that the Mauritshuis launched in 1993. It follows the same high standards of scholarship and production as the [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Rivals. History Painting in Amsterdam 1630–1650
Although nearly four decades have passed since the landmark exhibition Gods, Saints and Heroes (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980), history painting as an aspect of art in the Dutch ‘Golden [...] Read More
Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels
Modern scholarship has routinely presented the Brussels-born Michael Sweerts as an ally of the Bamboccianti, those mainly Netherlandish genre painters in Rome notorious for disregarding conventional [...] Read More