17th-Century Dutch Republic

Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

By Susan Donahue Kuretsky

With contributions by Walter S. Gibson, Catherine Levesque, Erik P. Löffler, Lynn Federle Orr, and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. [Cat. exh. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 8 – June 19, 2005; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, August 20 – October 30, 2005; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, January 10 – March 16, 2006.] Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2005; distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle. 299 pp, 161 b&w illus., 81 color plates. ISBN 0-964426-37-4

Review published November 2005

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

By Wayne Franits

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 328 pp, 247 illus. ISBN 0-3001-0237-2

Review published November 2005

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

The Learned Eye. Regarding Art, Theory, and the Artist’s Reputation. Essays for Ernst van de Wetering

By Marieke van den Doel, Natasja van Eck, Gerbrand Korevaar, Anna Tummers and Thijs Weststeijn (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. 228 pp., 50 color, 36 b&w illus. ISBN 90-5356-713-5

Review published November 2005

The Learned Eye takes its name from a passage in Franciscus Junius's treatise on painting (1641) in which he argues for informed viewing as the essential skill on which critical aesthetic judgments [...] Read More

Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader

By Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger (eds.)

London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2004. 296 pp, 96 color plates, 40 b&w illus. ISBN I903470358. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle

Review published November 2005

As a discerning collector, generous benefactor, and perceptive scholar, Alfred Bader has made a lasting and significant contribution to the study of Netherlandish art. His autobiography Adventures of [...] Read More

Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

By Nanette Salomon

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 163 pp, 98 illus. ISBN 0-8047-4476-9 (cloth) and 0-8047-4477-7 (paperback)

Review published April 2005

The burgeoning scholarly literature on seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting has seen vigorous growth since the 1980s. Three issues repeatedly inform the discussion of Dutch scenes of daily life: [...] Read More

Matters of Taste. Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life

By Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose

With essays by Charles T. Gehring and Nancy T. Minty, and supplementary cookbook by Peter G. Rose. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History & Art; Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8156-0747-4

Review published April 2005

This catalogue was published for the exhibition that celebrated the 350th anniversary (1652-2002) of the founding of Beverwijck, the original Dutch settlement that became present-day Albany, New York. [...] Read More

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17th-Century Dutch Republic