This hefty paperback – intellectually rigorous, yet lovingly devoted to the late economist, archivist and Vermeer scholar, John Michael Montias (1928-2005) – reflects both the respect and the [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Sponsors of the Past: Flemish Art and Patronage 1550-1700. Proceedings of the Symposium Organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 14-15, 2001
On the cover of Sponsors of the Past, the proceedings of a symposium on Flemish patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries held in Leuven in 2001, we see a detail of a Triumph of Bacchus. On [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Mother: Myth and Reality
The exhibition “Rembrandt’s Mother: Myth and Reality” was part of the worldwide celebration of Rembrandt’s 400th birthday. In that show, and in the catalogue published under the same title, primary [...] Read More
Uylenburgh & Son: Art and Commerce from Rembrandt to de Lairesse 1625-1675
The constant flow of publications on art and commerce in the Netherlands shows no sign of abating. Indeed, it may be a sign of our times that scholarly preoccupation with the finances, market, and [...] Read More
The Young Gentry at Play; Northern Netherlandish Scenes of Merry Companies 1610-1645
In this book, a translation of his 2002 Leiden dissertation, Elmer Kolfin has written the first comprehensive study to date on the merry company in Dutch art during the first half of the seventeenth [...] Read More
Pieter Isaacsz (1568-1625). Court Painter, Art Dealer and Spy
Apart from a few articles and an important slim monograph (Juliette Roding and Marja Stompé, Pieter Isaacsz (1568-1625), Hilversum, Verloren, 1997), Pieter Isaacsz has largely slipped under the radar [...] Read More