Over the last five years the depiction of interior scenes has provoked renewed interest among historians of Dutch seventeenth-century art. Willemijn C. Fock, Eric Jan Sluijter and Mariët Westermann [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800. Vol. 1: Künstler geboren bis 1615
Although the private foundation of public museums is a common phenomenon in North America, it forms the exception in Europe, and the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt is the only prominent [...] Read More
Selected Writings on Dutch Painting. Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer and Others
Having regrettably put off writing this review for far too long, I sat down to read through this book with no idea of how many subtle pleasures awaited me. The project of assembling a selection of [...] Read More
Frans van Mieris 1635-1681
To optimally experience the precious creations of the Dutchfijnschilders - those tiny painted worlds, rich and dense with an obsessive attention to detail - one should view them in an environment that [...] Read More
Rembrandt and Dutch History Painting Exhibition Catalogue and Proceedings
Akira Kofuku et al., Rembrandt and the Rembrandt School: The Bible, Mythology and Ancient History. [Cat. exh. The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, September 13 - December 14, 2003.] Text in [...] Read More
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits
(The review first appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 3, 2006) Joseph Heller, in Picture this (1988, p. 59): "Rembrandt did some fifty-two self-portraits that have come down to us, [...] Read More