The seventeenth-century Utrecht genre painter Jacob Cornelisz Duck (c 1600-1667) is best known for his depictions of soldiers and prostitutes, but his oeuvre also includes scenes of tranquil [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Stories in Gilded Frames: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings with Biblical and Mythological Subjects
Not surprisingly, the most respected genre of art, which appealed to the wealthiest and most educated buyers and fetched the highest prices for Dutch painters in the seventeenth century, was history [...] Read More
Drawing and the Senses. An Early Modern History (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)
Caroline O. Fowler’s thoughtful study of early modern printed drawing books through the lens of the senses is a compelling contribution to the study of drawing both north and south of the Alps. The [...] Read More
Adriaen van de Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape
Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672) has long been admired by art historians for his delicate landscapes with their sensitive lighting and exquisite staffage, but the Dutch artist is not known with a [...] Read More
Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678)
Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More
Denkende Körper – Formende Hände: Handeling in Kunst und Kunsttheorie der “Rembrandtisten” (Actus et Imago, Berliner Schriften für Bildaktforschung und Verkörperungsphilosophie, XVIII)
Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s book, based on his PhD thesis, is concerned with Rembrandtesque handeling in the works of those students of Rembrandt who adhered to their master’s style after it began to go [...] Read More