The first Dutch university-educated art historian, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), grew up in the North Netherlandish towns of Kampen and Groningen and, because of poor health, at spas in [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Northern Nocturnes: Nightscapes in the Age of Rembrandt
The central motivation behind this exhibition was to place the National Gallery of Ireland's Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Rembrandt in a wider context. One of the great achievements of the show [...] Read More
Carel Fabritius 1622-1654
On the morning of Monday, October 12, 1654, the former sexton of the Oude Kerk in Delft was sitting to Carel Fabritius for his portrait in the latter’s studio on the Doelenstraat. Between 10 and 10:30 [...] Read More
Am Anfang war das Wort. Das Ende der “stommen schilderkonst” am Beispiel Rembrandts
The point of departure for Christiane Häslein is the observation that in many of his works, Rembrandt attempts to visualize the intangible: the spoken word. She explains this phenomenon as the [...] Read More
Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Scholarship on seventeenth-century Dutch art has tended to be conservative, for the most part sticking to the well-trodden paths of archival research, iconography, and Stilgeschichte. On the rare [...] Read More
Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution represents a publishing event: a new survey devoted solely to the eponymous phenomenon, “from its first manifestations in [...] Read More