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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
Hercules Segers: Painter Etcher
Hercules Segers: Painter, Etcher does much to advance our understanding of an artist whose work is often described as enigmatic and – as the accompanying exhibition calls it – ‘mysterious.’ Since the [...] Read More
Light and Shade in Dutch and Flemish Art. A History of Chiaroscuro in Art Theory and Artistic Practice in the Netherlands of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Théorie de l’art 1400–1800/Art Theory 1400–1800, 7)
Light and shade played such fundamental roles in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish artists’ representation of the natural world that we may take for granted the complexity and ambiguity associated [...] Read More
Dutch Art and Urban Cultures 1200-1700
After completing her 1986 doctoral dissertation on the decoration of town halls in the United Provinces, Elisabeth de Bièvre published a series of studies (notably “The Urban Subconscious: The Art of [...] Read More
Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
This past spring (2016), there was much activity surrounding the Dutch pictures belonging to the British Royal Family who hold one of the largest and most significant private art collections in the [...] Read More