In her methodologically capacious new book, Claudia Swan attempts to show how materials from around the globe amassed in the early modern Netherlands illuminate the formation and development of the [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Het Grote Rembrandt Boek
Het Grote Rembrandt Boek is a catalogue of Rembrandt’s paintings. Its author, Jeroen Giltaij, is a well-respected scholar of Dutch art who for many years was the Curator of Paintings at the Museum [...] Read More
Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth: Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350-1650
This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More
The Fertile Ground of Painting: Seventeenth-Century Still Lifes & Nature Pieces
Attempts to reconstruct how early modern Europeans understood the workings of visual representation have usually conceptualized the mimetic picture as either a mirror reflecting the world or a window [...] Read More
Jacobus Vrel. Searching for Clues to an Enigmatic Artist
This remarkable monograph was produced to accompany the eponymous international exhibition of Vrel’s paintings that will be on view at the Mauritshuis (Feb. 16 – May 29, 2023) and the Fondation [...] Read More
Grinling Gibbons and his Contemporaries (1650-1700): The Golden Age of Woodcarving in The Netherlands and Britain
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