[Cat. Exh. Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, December 16, 2005 – March 19, 2006.] Zwolle: Waanders, 2006. 240 pp, 169 illus., 109 color. ISBN 90-400-8163-8
The exhibition “Rembrandt’s Mother: Myth and Reality” was part of the worldwide celebration of Rembrandt’s 400th birthday. In that show, and in the catalogue published under the same title, primary [...] Read More
[Cat. exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, June 7 – September 3, 2007; Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, September 14 – December 10, 2006.] Zwolle: Waanders, 2006. 324 pp, 230 illus, 61 color. ISBN 90-400-8164-6
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
Transl. by Michael Hoyle. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2005. 312 pp, 14 color, 192 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5997-013-6
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
[Cat. exh. Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, August 18 – November 18, 2007.] Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. 320 pp, many illus., mostly color. ISBN 978-2-503-52466-5
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
Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2005. 607 pp, ca. 560 b&w, 31 color illus. ISBN 91-71000-731-8
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
München/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 367 pp, 16 color, 80 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-06605-5
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