17th-Century Dutch Republic

The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

By Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., and Adele Seeff, eds.

Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000. 278 pp, numerous b&w illus. ISBN 0-87413-640-7

Review published November 2001

The fourteen thoughtful and thought-provoking essays in this volume tackle diverse artistic, civic, and religious issues, all loosely concerned with the role of the individual in Dutch society during [...] Read More

Public and Private Spaces: Works of Art in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Houses (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, vol. 3)

By John Loughman and John Michael Montias

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2000. 196 pp, 73 b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9444-6

Review published November 2001

This indispensable and admirably lucid volume examines some key issues surrounding the display of art (predominantly paintings) in Dutch homes during the seventeenth century. Thanks to the research of [...] Read More

Questions of Meaning; Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting

By Eddy de Jongh

Translated and edited by Michael Hoyle. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2000. 296 pp, 258 b&w illus. ISBN 90-74310-64-8 (paper), 90-74310-67-2 (hardcover)

Review published November 2001

Eddy de Jongh’s long-awaited Questions of Meaning; Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting (originally published in Dutch in 1995) presents for the first time in English a collection of [...] Read More

Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and Ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631

By Alan Chong (ed.), with essays by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Mariët Westermann, Christopher White and Alan Chong.

[Cat. Exh.] Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Zwolle: Wanders Publishers, 2000. 144 pp, col. plates and b&w illus. ISBN 90-400-9468-3

Review published April 2001

One approach to the complexities of Rembrandt and his art is to divide the artist’s periods, works, themes, and associations, so that the small doses of the artist or oeuvre allow in-depth examination [...] Read More

Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626, Imperial Sculptor

By Frits Scholten, ed.

[Cat. Exh., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles] Zwolle: Waanders, 1998. 312 pp, 234 illus. in colour and b&w, ISBN 0- 89236-553-6

Review published April 2001

Adriaen de Vries, sculptor to royal courts and wealthy cities, is the subject of the recent exhibition in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Los Angeles; the accompanying catalogue is the first lengthy [...] Read More

Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection

By Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck

[Cat. Exh., Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 3, 1999 – January 2, 2000; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, January 29 – March 26, 2000; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, December 16 – February 25, 2001]. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 1999. 144 pp, 42 col. illus., 21 b&w illus. SBN 0-9653805-7-2

Review published April 2001

Sheldon and Leena Peck are among several notable Boston-area collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Inspired by Konrad Oberhuber at the Fogg Art Museum in 1978, they have assembled a sizable [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

17th-Century Dutch Republic