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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Frans van Mieris 1635-1681

By Quentin Buvelot

With essays by Otto Naumann and Eddy de Jongh, and contributions by Pieter van der Ploeg, Bieke van der Mark, and Carol Pottasch. [Cat. exh. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 1, 2005 - January 22, 2006 (as Frans van Mieris 1635-1681: Fijngeschildered verhalen); National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, February 26 - May 21, 2006 (as Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris).] Zwolle: Waanders, 2005. 256 pp, 142 color, 72 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9176-5 (hardback); 90-400-8161-1 (paperback)

Review published November 2006

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

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits

By Stichting Rembrandt Research Project. Ernst van de Wetering, with contributions by Karin Groen, Peter Klein, Jaap van der Veen, Marieke de Winkel, and collaboration by Paul Broekhoff, Michiel Franken, and Lideke Peese Binkhorst

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 4: The Self-Portraits. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. 690 pp, 457 b&w, 250 color illus. ISBN 10-1-4020-3280-3 and 13-978-1-4020-3280-6

Review published November 2006

(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

The Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic

By Herman Roodenburg

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2005. 208 pp, 8 color plates, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9474-8

Review published November 2006

The work of the cultural historian Herman Roodenburg has long been of interest to art historians who share his fascination with codes of civility in early modern social discourse. In this book, [...] Read More

Rembrandt: Portraits in Print (Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 9)

By Stephanie S. Dickey

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. 365 pp, 178 b&w illus. ISBN 90-272-5339-0 (Eur.); 1-58811-498-8 (US)

Review published April 2006

Rembrandt's last portrait print came about because, on 22 December 1664, the artist's son, Titus, who lived with his father in Amsterdam, happened to be walking down the street in Leiden when he was [...] Read More

Four Focussed Studies on Rembrandt Drawings

By various authors
Review published April 2006

Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Rembrandt auf Papier. Werk und Wirkung. Rembrandt and his Followers. Drawings from Munich . With an essay by Peter Schatborn. [Cat. exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, December 5, 2001 [...] Read More