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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
The Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic
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