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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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)
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
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
Tronies. Das Gesicht in der Frühen Neuzeit
The tronie has been the subject of serious art historical investigation since Lyckle de Vries’s 1990 publication and the symposium in The Hague in 2000. Recent monographs by Dagmar Hirschfelder (2008) [...] Read More
Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ groundbreaking exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, explores the social condition of class in seventy-five glorious [...] Read More
Emotions. Pain and Pleasure in Dutch Painting of the Golden Age
The 2010 issue of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, edited by Stephanie Dickey and Herman Roodenburg and devoted to ‘The Passions in the Arts of the Netherlands’ and several other recent [...] Read More