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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Matters of Taste. Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life
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
Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil
The Groningen native Albert Eckhout spent seven years in Brazil (1637-1644) and as a result he holds an important historical position as one of the first trained European artists in the New World. His [...] Read More
Two Books on Rembrandt
Alison McQueen, The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Masterin Nineteenth-Century France. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 388 pp, 19 color plates, 80 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More
Images of the Feminine in Rembrandt’s Work
This book is the result of a doctoral dissertation written for the Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen. In a compact volume comprised of six chapters, Anat Gilboa sets herself a daunting task: a survey [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher
The end of the twentieth century, and beginning of the twenty-first, have seen no diminution of interest in the seventeenth-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn, at least as gauged by museum exhibitions. [...] Read More