When Joshua Reynolds visited Amsterdam he admired a famous group portrait of the city’s Civic Guards: “the first picture ... in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Herman van Swanevelt (um 1603-1655): Gemälde und Zeichnungen (Studien zur interna-tionalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 77)
Anne Charlotte Steland’s monograph and catalogue raisonné of the Dutch Italianate painter and draughtsman Herman van Swanevelt’s large oeuvre of paintings and drawings is the impressive result of [...] Read More
The Eye of the Connoisseur: Authenticating Paintings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries (Amsterdam Studies in Dutch Golden Age)
Connoisseurship is a methodology that continues to befuddle and, depending on opinions, to infuriate parties involved – art dealers, collectors, curators, and researchers. Representing an inexact [...] Read More
Picturing the Scientific Revolution
As research over the last decade has made abundantly clear, the relation between ‘art’ and ‘science’ in early modern Europe encompassed much more than the invention of perspective or the use of the [...] Read More
Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715
With the groundbreaking recent exhibition and catalogue, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman et al. (2011; reviewed here November 2011, 22-23), study of the [...] Read More
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
This exhibition centers on the production by Rembrandt and his workshop of a group of small paintings representing the head of Christ. The likely dates are bounded by an apparent relationship to the [...] Read More