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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age.

By Marsely Kehoe

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 244 pp, illus. in color. ISBN 978-9463723633.

Review published September 2024

Marsely Kehoe begins her recent monograph, Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture, with two big claims: that the Dutch Republic’s global reach was key to the cultural as well as the [...] Read More

Fantasmagorie. Streghe, demoni e tentazioni nell’arte fiamminga e olandese del Seicento

By Tania de Nile

Rome: Officina Libraria: 2023. 336 pp, 307 col. illus. ISBN 9788833672267.

Review published June 2024

The European fascination with the various manifestations of witches, demons and evil temptations seems endless; it generated a flourishing production of imagery that was supported by literary culture. [...] Read More

Vermeer and the Art of Love (Northern Lights)

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine

London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2022. 160pp, 93 col. illus. ISBN 978-1848224896.

Review published February 2024

When one looks deeply at a Vermeer, one often borrows – however contingently – a lover’s rapt gaze. As Edward Snow observed, the painter’s “most profoundly dialectical”[1] tendencies hold the viewer’s [...] Read More

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-Century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune (Northern Lights)

By Wayne Franits

London: Lund Humphries, 2023. 168 pp, 60 col. illus. ISBN 978-1848225466.

Review published February 2024

Wayne Franits’s second monograph on Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706) reads as an ardent love letter to the late seventeenth-century Dutch artist. A meticulous analysis of a selection of paintings from [...] Read More

Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature

By Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki, eds.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 426 pp, 147 illus. ISBN 978-9463729437.

Review published September 2023

This multi-author volume edited by Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki is a welcome addition to the environmental humanities. As its title suggests, the book draws our attention to differences [...] Read More

Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting. First English Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 62)

By Walter S. Melion

Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2023. ISBN: 978-90-04-52307-4 (E-Book); ISBN: 978-90-04-50838-5 (Hardback).

Review published September 2023

As an experienced and distinguished scholar who has spent a substantial part of his career studying Karel van Mander, Walter Melion[1] certainly knew what he was getting into when he took up the [...] Read More

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