What did Rembrandt know, and how did he know it? This variant on the classic Water-gate interrogation forms the basic inquiry of this stimulating new essay by Amy Golahny, Professor at Lycoming [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
From Criminal to Courtier, The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 (History of Warfare)
It is a rare book on early modern Netherlandish art that opens with a denunciation of US human rights abuses and military policies. Prof. Kunzle immediately warns the reader of his partisan stance. [...] Read More
Two Catalogues on Jacob van Ruisdael
Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 788 pp, 328 color plates, 1112 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More
Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708): Sein Leben und Werk
Gerlinde de Beer's monograph on the great Dutch marine painter Ludolf Bakhuizen is a welcome addition to the strikingly limited scholarship on this artist. The foremost seascape painter in the Dutch [...] Read More
Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800
This exhibition and its catalogue survey portraiture and portrait patronage in Amsterdam from the city's rise as the leading mercantile center of the Netherlands through its sedate quiescence in the [...] Read More
The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston
After having been without a curator of Dutch and Flemish art for several years, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston hired Ronni Baer in 2000. (Formally, she is the Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of [...] Read More