17th-Century Dutch Republic

Herman van Swanevelt (um 1603-1655): Gemälde und Zeichnungen (Studien zur interna-tionalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 77)

By Anne Charlotte Steland

Peters-berg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010, 2 vols, vol. 1: text, 384 pp, 13 illus; vol. 2: images, 328 pp, 648 illus. ISBN 978-3-86568-388-5

Review published November 2012

Anne Charlotte Steland’s monograph and catalogue raisonné of the Dutch Italianate painter and draughtsman Herman van Swanevelt’s large oeuvre of paintings and drawings is the impressive result of [...] Read More

The Eye of the Connoisseur: Authenticating Paintings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries (Amsterdam Studies in Dutch Golden Age)

By Anna Tummers

Los Angeles: Getty Publications; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 349 pp, 155 color illus., 7 full-page details. ISBN 978-1-60606-084-1

Review published November 2012

Connoisseurship is a methodology that continues to befuddle and, depending on opinions, to infuriate parties involved – art dealers, collectors, curators, and researchers. Representing an inexact [...] Read More

Picturing the Scientific Revolution

By Volker R. Remmert

Trans. Ben Kern. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2011. 292 pp, 109 illus. ISBN 978-0-916101-67-1

Review published November 2012

As research over the last decade has made abundantly clear, the relation between ‘art’ and ‘science’ in early modern Europe encompassed much more than the invention of perspective or the use of the [...] Read More

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715

By Eric Jorink

Trans. Peter Mason. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 472 pp, 70 illus. ISBN 978-90-04-18671-2

Review published November 2012

With the groundbreaking recent exhibition and catalogue, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman et al. (2011; reviewed here November 2011, 22-23), study of the [...] Read More

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

By Lloyd DeWitt, ed.

With a preface by Seymour Slive and contributions by Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, Franziska Gottwald, George S. Keyes, Shelley Perlove, Larry Silver, Ken Sutherland and Mark Tucker. Cat. exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris, April 21 - July 18, 2011; Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 3 - October 30, 2011; Detroit Institute of Arts, November 20, 2011 - February 12, 2012. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011. 271 pp, 213 color and 17 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-87633-227-6

Review published April 2012

This exhibition centers on the production by Rembrandt and his workshop of a group of small paintings representing the head of Christ. The likely dates are bounded by an apparent relationship to the [...] Read More

Rembrandt in America. Collecting and Connoisseurship

By George S. Keyes, Tom R. Rassieur, and Dennis P. Weller, in collaboration with Jon L. Seydl

Cat. exh. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, November 1, 2011 - February 1, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 19 - May 28, 2012; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 24 - September 16, 2012. New York: SkiraRizzoli, 2011. 223 pp, 50 large color plates, over 93 small color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-3685-7

Review published April 2012

A collaboration between the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue make an impressive showing [...] Read More

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