This book is about Dutch genre painting of love and courtship in the context of the youth culture that flourished during the first half of the seventeenth century. It focuses on outdoor and indoor [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Inspired by Italy. Dutch Landscape Painting 1600-1700
That Inspired by Italy was the first exhibition of Italianate landscape painting in Great Britain is 'really a theme for the philosopher.' The phrase comes from a relevant source, Henry James's [...] Read More
Aelbert Cuyp
The pleasure of losing oneself in the golden world of Aelbert Cuyp is enhanced by total immersion. For this reason viewers of the Cuyp exhibition in Washington, London, and Amsterdam owe the [...] Read More
The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer
This remarkably useful book is part of the rapidly proliferatingCambridge Companion series, which encompasses sub-series in literature, philosophy, music, and beginning last year, history of art. [...] Read More
Allart van Everdingen 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape
In Allart van Everdingen, 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape, Alice I. Davies has produced another important monograph. She, in collaboration with Frederic J. Duparc, has also [...] Read More
Reframing Rembrandt, Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
The question of Rembrandt's theological position has occupied Rembrandt specialists for centuries. Michael Zell's important study offers a solution to this problem by situating Rembrandt's religious [...] Read More