17th-Century Dutch Republic

Two Exhibition Catalogs on Rembrandt

By various authors

Review published November 2015

Jonathan Bikker and Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie E. Wieseman and Erik Hinterding, with contributions by Marijn Schapelhouman and Anna Krekeler. Editorial Consultant Christopher White, Rembrandt: The [...] Read More

Bilderzählungen in der Vogelmalerei des niederländischen Barock

By Lisanne Wepler

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2014. 240 pp, 227 col. illus. ISBN 978-3-86568-980-1

Review published November 2015

The first chapter of this beautifully produced book outlines the history of bird painting in the Netherlands, focusing on Melchior d’Hondecoeter, the “Raphael” of the genre. Especially well [...] Read More

Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World

By Benjamin Schmidt

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 448 pp, 203 illus., 24 in color. ISBN 978-0-8122-4646-9

Review published November 2015

Benjamin Schmidt's new book explores a shift in the way that Europeans thought about non-Europeans that occurred between the ages of European world exploration and the onset of colonialism, when [...] Read More

Frans Hals

By Seymour Slive

New York and London: Phaidon, 2014. 399 pp, 415 illus. ISBN: 978-07148-6755-7

Review published November 2015

It is impossible to imagine our understanding of Frans Hals without Seymour Slive’s monumental contributions. His three-volume study published in 1970 and 1974 remains the most important catalogue [...] Read More

Frans Halsen’ aan de muur: omgang met familieportretten in Haarlem

By S.A.C. Dudok van Heel and M.J. Bok

The Hague: Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 2013. Distributed by Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum. 57 pp, with numerous illus. ISBN 978-90-805689-7-6

Review published April 2015

The brief publication under review, richly illustrated in color with drawn and painted portraits, coats of arms and seals, and furnished with family trees and transcripts of archival documents, came [...] Read More

Liechtentein Museum Vienna: The Hohenbuchau Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Golden Age

By Peter C. Sutton

Ed. by Johann Kräftner. Exhibition “Northern Baroque Splendor. The Hohenbuchau Collection from the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, The Princely Collections, Vienna,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, September 20, 2014 – April 12, 2015; Cincinnati Art Museum, June 27 – September 20, 2015, as “Rubens to Ruisdael,” with the same subtitle. Vienna: Liechtenstein Museum and Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2011. 494 pp, profuse illus. ISBN 978-85033-572-0 (English edition)

Review published April 2015

The splendid exhibition now at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (and this summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum), presents sixty-four of the ninety-seven paintings that are published in Peter [...] Read More

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17th-Century Dutch Republic