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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Two Publications on Rembrandt Drawings

By various authors
Review published April 2011

Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 260 pp, 197 color, 46 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-89236-976-8. Holm Bevers, Lee Hendrix, William W. Robinson, Peter [...] Read More

The Image of the Black in Western Art III. 1. From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque

By David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds.

Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. 408 pp, 191 illus. ISBN 978-0-674-05261

Review published April 2011

"Much awaited" declares the jacket copy on this handsome book, Part 1 of the missing link in the great series of a generation ago, The Image of the Black in Western Art, begun under the auspices of [...] Read More

Clandestine Splendor. Paintings for the Catholic Church in the Dutch Republic

By Xander van Eck

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2008. 240 pp, illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8468-3

Review published April 2011

Thanks to paintings by Emmanuel de Witte and Pieter Saenredam, it is easy to visualize the interior of a Reformed church in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic: it is a soaring, creamy space, [...] Read More

At Home in the Golden Age. Masterpieces from the SØR Rusche Collection

By Marten Jan Bok et al.

Edited by Jannet de Goede and Martine Gosselink. [Cat. exh. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, February 9 – May 18 , 2008]. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2008. 144 pp, 185 color illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8505-5

Review published April 2011

“Von den Kleinsten, das Beste” (“The best of the smallest”), this self-proclaimed motto of the collecting strategy of Egon Rusche (1934-1996) is a fine characterization of the SØR Rusche Collection as [...] Read More

Tronie und Porträt in der niederlän-dischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts

By Dagmar Hirschfelder

Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2008. 552 pp, 70 b&w illus., 24 tables with 49 color illus. and 111 tables with 323 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7861-2567-9

Review published April 2011

The ‘tronie’ (meaning ‘head’, ‘face’ or ‘facial expression’ in Dutch) entered art historical discourse in the1980s and in recent years has garnered increasing interest. Nevertheless, it remains [...] Read More

Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community

By Ann Jensen Adams

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 398 pp, 73 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-521-44455-2

Review published April 2011

Already in 1994, Joanna Woodall in her Portraiture Facing the Subjectannounced that Ann Jensen Adams’s forthcoming study of Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture assumes the distinction between public [...] Read More

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