Exh. Cat., The Wallace Collection, London, September 22, 2021 – January 30, 2022. London/Dublin: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2021. 130 pp, 82 color illus. ISBN 978-78130-110-4
This book is the catalogue of a small exhibition held at the Wallace Collection in London, centered on the dashing portrait of a young man signed and dated by Hals in 1624 and nicknamed by [...] Read More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 360pp. 21 col., 61 b/w ills. ISBN: 978-0226698366.
Steven Nadler’s latest book is a biography of Frans Hals. This format is increasingly rare. As such, it is worth contemplating the role of biographies, and indeed biography, in early modern studies. [...] Read More
London: Lund Humphries, 2022. 160 pp, 72 mostly color ills. ISBN: 978-1-84822-494-0.
This important and charming book examines the depiction of woodlands and individual trees in the visual arts and poetry during the long Renaissance and beyond. It posits that in former times human [...] Read More
Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, 2023. 168 pp. 121 col., 1 b&w ills. ISBN 978-9462087583.
Over the past forty years, a veritable avalanche of Vermeer studies has been published, culminating with the catalogue of the Rijksmuseum’s recent blockbuster exhibition on the artist. By now, many [...] Read More
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. 214 pp, 84+ color illus. ISBN 9780691215761.
A very handsome book replete with full-color photographs, Conchophilia is a joy to read, as appealing and stimulating as the curiosities it considers. Comprising an introduction and six chapters, the [...] Read More
London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2022. 200 pp, 83 b&w, 16 col illus. ISBN 9781848225473.
Larry Silver has long been a prominent advocate for the study of world art. His Art in History, a textbook published three decades ago, was one of the first of its kind to present “views from the [...] Read More