Over the past few decades, publications and exhibitions on Dutch art of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries have slowly but steadily transformed our understanding of this transitional [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Govert Flinck 1615-1660
It was perhaps no coincidence that Govert Flinck first received a monographic study of his life and work well after his friend Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1926), and fellow Rembrandt pupil Philips Koninck [...] Read More
Der amputierte Herrscher: Ein niederländisches Porträt des Sultans von Tidore
Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s new book introduces its topic, an anonymous seventeenth-century Dutch portrait of Saifuddin, Sultan of the North Moluccan island of Tidore, through the publication most of us [...] Read More
Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750
Those who favor exhibitions that dazzle through variety would have appreciated Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750. A collaborative project by curators Virginia Treanor [...] Read More
Opacity. Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic
In the Netherlands, the prosperous economic and cultural heights of the seventeenth century used to be called the “Golden Century” (Gouden Eeuw). But as if a veil has been lifted, recent revisionist [...] Read More
The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 79)
This edited volume, according to its introduction, purports to reevaluate and reframe the study of global Netherlandish art, at a moment when North Americans and Europeans continue to grapple with the [...] Read More