This book is the result of an unusual collaboration. When he died unexpectedly in August 2003, Leonard J. Slatkes left behind copious fractional entries and an elaborate photo archive for the present [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Three Publications on Rembrandt
Gary Schwartz, The Rembrandt Book. New York: Abrams, 2006. 384 pp, 464 color, 185 b&w illus. ISBN 13-978-0-8109-4317-9. Mirjam Alexander-Knotter, Jasper Hillegers, and Edward van Voolen, with [...] Read More
In His Milieu. Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias
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
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