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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
Pieter Lastman: In Rembrandts Schatten?
One side-effect of 2006, the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, is the attention paid to Pieter Lastman. Perhaps Lastman is destined forever to be known as Rembrandt’s teacher, but it is time he [...] Read More