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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals
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
Two Exhibition Catalogs on Rembrandt
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
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
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