17th-Century Dutch Republic

Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1594/5-1667: The Paintings

By Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert

Trans. Jennifer M. Kilian and Katy Kist (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 15). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2016. xi, 408 pp, 176 b&w illus, 195 color illus. ISBN 978-90-2724-976-8

Review published November 2016

Cornelis van Poelenburch frequently signed his works Poelenburch or van Poelenburch but more often with the monogram C.P. Born in Utrecht between January 21, 1594 and January 21, 1595, he was the [...] Read More

Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age

By Karina H. Corrigan, Jan van Campen, and Femke Diercks, with Janet C. Blyberg, eds.

[Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 17, 2015 – January 17, 2016; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, February 27 – June 5, 2016.] Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2015, distributed by Yale University Press. 356 pp, 112 illus. ISBN 978-0-875-77229-5

Review published November 2016

In 1665, Jacob Jansz. Coeman, a Dutch painter working in Batavia (present day Jakarta), painted a portrait of a family group (Rijksmusem, Amsterdam). He shows the merchant Pieter Cnoll, his wife, [...] Read More

Masters of the Everyday. Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer

By Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Quentin Buvelot

[Cat. exh. The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, November 13, 2015 – February 14, 2016; The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, March 11 – July 17, 2016; Mauritshuis, The Hague, September 29, 2016 – January 8, 2017.] London: Royal Collection Trust, 2015. 176 pp, 150 color plates. ISBN 978-1-909741-19-5

Review published November 2016

The British Royal family holds one of the world’s greatest private collections of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Over the years, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been particularly generous in [...] Read More

Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)

By Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North, eds.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014. 348 pp, 63 color plates, 50 b&w illus, tables, graphs, and maps. ISBN: 978-9-0896-4569-2

Review published April 2016

This anthology, the product of a group effort sponsored by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, explores the role of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as an agent of cultural interaction [...] Read More

The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age: The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art Market in St. Petersburg, 1860-1910 (Oud Holland Book Series, 1)

By Irina Sokolova

Leiden: Brill, 2015. 448 pp, 323 color & b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-04-29241-3

Translation with some revisions of Kartinnaya galereya P.P.Semenova-Tyan-Shanskogo i gollandskaya zhivopis' na antikvarnom rynke Peterburga, St. Petersburg, 2009. Translator: Catherine Phillips.

Review published April 2016

In this fascinating book Irina Sokolova, Curator of Dutch Paintings at the Hermitage, takes the remarkable figure of Pyotr Semenov (1827-1914), the creator of the finest private collection of Dutch [...] Read More

Confronting the Golden Age: Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting, 1680-1750

By Junko Aono

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. 272 pp, 129 color illus. ISBN 978-90-8964-568-5

Review published April 2016

Junko Aono’s new book explores the practices of genre painters active from 1680 to 1750, a period that has traditionally attracted limited scholarly attention. It participates in the endeavor in [...] Read More

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17th-Century Dutch Republic