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)

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

Tronies. Das Gesicht in der Frühen Neuzeit

By Dagmar Hirschfelder and León Krempel, eds.

Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2014. 135 pp, 15 col. illus. ISBN 978-3-7861-2694-2

Review published April 2016

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

By Ronni Baer, with essays by Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter, Marieke de Winkel, and Sanny de Zoete. Essays translated by Diane Webb

[Cat. exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 11, 2015 – January 18, 2016; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, February 20 – May 29, 2016.] Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2015. 344pp, 180 color illustrations. ISBN 978-0-87846-830-0

Review published April 2016

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

By Gary Schwartz, with contributions by Ann Demeester and Machiel Keestra

Cat. exh. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, October 11 – February 15, 2015. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2014. 152 pp, 80 col. illus. ISBN 978-94-6208-170-3.

Review published November 2015

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

Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals

By Esmée Quodbach, ed.

(The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America). University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. 264 pp, 109 illus., 89 in color. ISBN 978-0-271-06201-3

Review published November 2015

This publication, the proceedings of a symposium organized in 2009 by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, considers from numerous vantage points the tidal shifts in [...] Read More

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