It is heartening that collection catalogues are still being produced in printed format, especially those devoted to museums previously lacking scholarly catalogues, or ones in which color [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Family, Culture and Society in the Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr, Secretary to Stadholder-King William of Orange (Egodocuments and History Series, 5)
In Leiden and The Hague, 2013 was declared a "Huygens Year," with several publications and exhibitions celebrating the achievements of Constantijn Huygens, Sr., and his son Christiaan. (See [...] Read More
The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500-1700
In tackling the discourse on melancholia and its impact on the visual arts of the early modern era, Dixon is returning to a theme explored in such seminal studies as Kris and Kurz’s Die Legende vom [...] Read More
Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa
This book builds fruitfully on earlier scholarship relating to illustrated travel books, cartography and the book trade in the Northern Netherlands to present a convincing account of the working [...] Read More
The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen: Catalogue Raisonné (Oculi. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries 13)
Nearly fifty years have passed since the publication of Leonard Slatkes’s pioneering monograph on the paintings of Dirck van Baburen. That interval is surely long enough to merit a new critical [...] Read More
Two Publications on Frans Hals
Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and The Market in Early Modernity(Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press [...] Read More