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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Drawn to Life. Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum
This excellent catalogue was designed to accompany the exhibition of 67 of 134 Dutch drawings donated recently by Leena and Sheldon Peck to the Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill. The book [...] Read More
The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths
Among the cultural developments in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the city’s doolhoven – planned environments containing moving sculptures, fountains, automata, waxworks, and clockworks – have [...] Read More
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape
Between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth century, Dutch artists produced a staggering number of landscape drawings. This richly illustrated catalogue, published in the wake of an exhibition at [...] Read More
Rarities of these Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
In her methodologically capacious new book, Claudia Swan attempts to show how materials from around the globe amassed in the early modern Netherlands illuminate the formation and development of the [...] Read More
Het Grote Rembrandt Boek
Het Grote Rembrandt Boek is a catalogue of Rembrandt’s paintings. Its author, Jeroen Giltaij, is a well-respected scholar of Dutch art who for many years was the Curator of Paintings at the Museum [...] Read More