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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
The Low Countries and the New World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations (Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 13)
The American Association for Netherlandic Studies (AANS, pronounced like the Bostonion version of 'aunts' by those who love it) is to HNA what a lavish rijstafel is to a warm bowl of hutspot. Attend [...] Read More