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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community
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
Two Publications on Romeyn de Hooghe
Henk van Nierop, Ellen Gravowsky, Anouk Janssen (eds.), Romeyn de Hooghe: De verbeelding van de late Gouden Eeuw. With introductory essay by Henk van Nierop and contributions by Anna de Haas, Henk van [...] Read More
Ludolf Backhuysen. Emden 1630 – Amsterdam 1708
The singular achievement of Ludolf Backhuysen as the Dutch Golden Age’s master of the monumental tempest first received its full due with a monographic exhibition in Emden and Amsterdam, his native [...] Read More
Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651)
To secure a place in the history of art, it was not always useful to have been considered Rembrandt's pupil. Few seventeenth-century painters were as unfortunate posthumously as Jacob Backer. Due to [...] Read More
Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th-Century Holland
This slim volume, which explores the work of four Haarlem artists, the history painter, architect and theoretician, Salomon de Bray, and his three sons, Jan, Joseph and Dirk, is a unique and quite [...] Read More