On his death in 1987, Harold Samuel, elevated in 1972 to Baron Samuel of Wych Cross, bequeathed the collection he had formed of 84 seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings to the Corporation of [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
How to Create Beauty. De Lairesse on the Theory and Practice of Making Art
In this book Lyckle de Vries aims to restore Gerard de Lairesse’s Groot Schilderboek (1707) to its ostensive original function as “a guide for art lovers and critics.”(7) According to De Vries, the [...] Read More
The Bloemaert Effect: Colour and Composition in the Golden Age
If anybody deserves to be designated “the father of the Utrecht school,” it is Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651). A wildly successful teacher, Bloemaert attracted scores of students and shop assistants, [...] Read More
The Slave in European Art. From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 20)
Yet another of the splendid consequences for scholarship of the revival of the dormant project, The Image of the Black in Western Art, was the association of its images with the iconographic library [...] Read More
he Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen: Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht
Seaman's closely argued study addresses two entwined issues, the limits of Ter Brugghen's Caravaggism and the significance of "archaisms" – echoes of pre-Reformation Northern imagery – discernable in [...] Read More
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
This exquisite volume is as enticing as its title implies, exploring much more than the works which were on view in the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The additional paintings provide a [...] Read More