Carel Vosmaer provided a list of 53 paintings by Pieter Lastman (1583-1633) in his book on Rembrandt, first published in 1868 and reprinted in 1877. That list signals the beginning of modern interest [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Holländische Gemälde im Städel Museum 1550-1800. Vol. 3: Künstler geboren nach 1630 (Kataloge der Gemälde im Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Max Hollein and Jochen Sander, XI)
Note to our readers: in general, the HNA Newsletter has not been reviewing museum collection catalogues, but as the previous museum collection catalogues of Frankfurt were already reviewed, we [...] Read More
Two Publications on Gabriel Metsu and Eglon van der Neer
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Pieter Roelofs and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., with contributions by Wayne E. Franits, E. Melanie Gifford, Bianca M. du Mortier, Pieter Roelofs, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Linda [...] Read More
Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age
Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age builds on Jochai Rosen's dissertation "Jacob Duck and the 'Guardroom' Painters: Minor Masters as Inventors in [...] Read More
Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare: Zur holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat's choice of a title for her book echoes that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological examination of the relations between reflection, dialectic and intuition (1964) and [...] Read More
Golgatha in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 113)
This collection of 14 essays by foremost German scholars represents an interdisciplinary approach to church history and the function of imagery within it. It includes a substantial, posthumously [...] Read More