17th-Century Dutch Republic

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

De verzameling Hofstede de Groot: Van Cuyp tot Rembrandt

By Luuk Pijl (ed.)

With essays by Rudi Ekkart, Dieuwertje Dekkers, Volker Manuth, et al. [Cat. exh. Groninger Museum, Groningen, November 12, 2005 – February 5, 2006.] Ghent: Snoeck Publishers, 2005. 320 pp, with b&w and color illus. ISBN 90-5349-591-6

Review published April 2006

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

Northern Nocturnes: Nightscapes in the Age of Rembrandt

By Adriaan E. Waiboer

With an essay by Michiel Franken. [Cat. exh. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October 1 – December 11, 2005.] Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2005. 107 pp, 58 color, 24 b&w illus. ISBN 1-904288-13-8

Review published April 2006

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

17th-Century Dutch Republic