Liesbeth Helmus’s ambitious monograph on the canonical but often underestimated Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst will surely be the new touchstone for studies of the artist. Published earlier this [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Johannes van Bronchorst (1627–1656): Naturalism and Classicism in the Dutch Golden Age
Tommaso Borgogelli’s new study of the art of Johannes van Bronchorst is the first comprehensive analysis of this artist’s oeuvre since the appearance of Thomas Döring’s indispensible monograph of [...] Read More
Willem de Rooij – Dirk Valkenburg: A Critical Analysis of Visual Culture in the Early Modern Netherlands
This volume appeared as a pendant to Willem de Rooij’s solo exhibition Valkenburg, on view at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, September 13, 2025 – January 25, 2026. It sets out to achieve ambitious and [...] Read More
Rembrandt 1632. Entstehung einer Marke. Creation of a Brand.
In the last 25 years or so, at least four major exhibitions have focused on Rembrandt's early career. Each of these built upon the collection of the host institution(s), and each took a different [...] Read More
The Cultural Work of the Early Modern Dutch Portrait: Amalia van Solms and the Shape of the Self in European Art
Saskia Beranek has written an important study of the images and image-making of one of the most intriguing figures from seventeenth-century Dutch history, Amalia van Solms, Princess of Orange. Amalia [...] Read More
At Home with Ter Borch: Artist Family in Zwolle
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