17th-Century Dutch Republic

Rembrandt in America. Collecting and Connoisseurship

By George S. Keyes, Tom R. Rassieur, and Dennis P. Weller, in collaboration with Jon L. Seydl

Cat. exh. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, November 1, 2011 - February 1, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 19 - May 28, 2012; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 24 - September 16, 2012. New York: SkiraRizzoli, 2011. 223 pp, 50 large color plates, over 93 small color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-3685-7

Review published April 2012

A collaboration between the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue make an impressive showing [...] Read More

Pieter Lastman. Studien zu Leben und Werk. Mit einem kritischen Verzeichnis der Werke mit Themen aus der antiken Mythologie und Historie (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 88)

By Christian Tico Seifert

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2011. 368 pp, 74 b&w and 228 color illus. ISBN 978-3-86568-515-5

Review published April 2012

Carel Vosmaer provided a list of 53 paintings by Pieter Lastman (1583-1633) in his book on Rembrandt, first published in 1868 and reprinted in 1877. That list signals the beginning of modern interest [...] Read More

Holländische Gemälde im Städel Museum 1550-1800. Vol. 3: Künstler geboren nach 1630 (Kataloge der Gemälde im Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Max Hollein and Jochen Sander, XI)

By Mirjam Neumeister, Julia Schewski-Bock and Christiane Haeselaer

Petersburg: Michael Imhof Verlag, and Frankfurt am Main: Städel Museum, 2010. 616 pp, 279 b&w illus., 378 color illus. ISBN 978-3-86568-541-4

Review published April 2012

Note to our readers: in general, the HNA Newsletter has not been reviewing museum collection catalogues, but as the previous museum collection catalogues of Frankfurt were already reviewed, we [...] Read More

Two Publications on Gabriel Metsu and Eglon van der Neer

By various authors

Review published November 2011

Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Pieter Roelofs and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., with contributions by Wayne E. Franits, E. Melanie Gifford, Bianca M. du Mortier, Pieter Roelofs, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Linda [...] Read More

Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age

By Jochai Rosen

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 216 pp, 140 illus., including 105 in color. ISBN 978-90-8964-204-2

Review published November 2011

Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age builds on Jochai Rosen's dissertation "Jacob Duck and the 'Guardroom' Painters: Minor Masters as Inventors in [...] Read More

Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare: Zur holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts

By Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat

Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2009. 337 pp, 144 color illus. (including monochrome prints), 14 full-page color plates, ISBN 978-3-412-20446-4

Review published November 2011

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat's choice of a title for her book echoes that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological examination of the relations between reflection, dialectic and intuition (1964) and [...] Read More

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