17th-Century Dutch Republic

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

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