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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
Dutch and Flemish Paintings II: Dutch Paintings c. 1600–c.1800
Fifteen years after the appearance of its summary catalogue of European paintings, the Nationalmuseum’s former research curator Görel Cavalli-Bjorkman presents the fruits of focused research and [...] Read More
Ein ‘Schau-Spiel’ der Malkunst. Das Fensterbild in der holländischen Malerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
The topic of Stephanie Sonntag’s well-researched dissertation is the so-called Fensterbild (window view) by the Leiden fijnschilders, a formula that was developed by Gerrit Dou at the end of the 1640s [...] Read More