17th-Century Dutch Republic

Love Letters. Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer

By Peter C. Sutton, Lisa Vergara, and Ann Jensen Adams, with Jennifer Kilian and Marjorie E. Wieseman

[Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, January 31 - May 2, 2004; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October 1 - December 31, 2003.] Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2003. 208 pp, 76 color plates, 94 b&w illus. ISBN 0-9720736-6-3

Review published November 2004

A decade ago, few connoisseurs of old master painting would have listed the Bruce Museum, in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut, among major exhibition venues. Peter Sutton, who joined the Bruce as [...] Read More

Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age

By Christopher Lloyd

[Cat. exh. Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, May 14 - November 7, 2004.] Royal Collection Enterprises, 2004. ISBN 1-902163 -90-7

Review published November 2004

Visitors to Edinburgh in the summer of 2004 had the good fortune of finding the crème de la crème of the British Royal Collection's Dutch paintings in the Queen's Gallery at the Palace of [...] Read More

Het Kabinet der Statuen

By Wybrand de Geest

Reprint of the edition Amsterdam 1702, with an explanatory text by Jochen Becker. Hamburg: Conferencepoint Verlag, 2003. 156 & XXIV pp., with fold-out images, ISBN 3-936406-05-7 (paperback), ISBN 3-936406-04-9 (hardback)

Review published April 2004

The Frisian painter and writer Wybrand de Geest (around 1660-1716) is often confused with his grandfather who had the same name (1591-after 1661). The latter was also called "the Eagle" in honor of [...] Read More

Rembrandt’s Jews

By Steven Nadler

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 250 pp, 50 illus. (18 color, 32 b&w), ISBN 0-226-56736-2

Review published April 2004

This study is a thoughtful, lively, and wide-ranging discussion of Amsterdam's Jews - as they appear in Rembrandt's art, as they had business dealings with the artist, and as they lived as new [...] Read More

Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age: Paintings and People in Historical Perspective

By Klaske Muizelaar and Derek Phillips

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. 246 pp, 54 illus., 25 in color. ISBN 0-300-09817-0

Review published April 2004

The central thesis of this book is a relatively simple one: that the primary destination of most paintings produced in the Dutch Republic was the home, and that in this environment, men and women [...] Read More

Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17-1678)

By Paul Huys Janssen

Translated by Diane L. Webb. Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 2002 (Aetas Aurea, XVII). 216 pp, 21 color plates, 134 b&w illus. ISBN 90-70288-47-8

Review published December 2003

Paul Huys Janssen's substantial new monograph on Caesar van Everdingen is a much-needed expansion of the literature on this important artist. Everdingen has been recognized as a key classical artist [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

17th-Century Dutch Republic