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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626, Imperial Sculptor
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
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
Two Publications on Gerrit van Honthorst
J. Richard Judson and Rudolf E. O. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656 (Aetas Aurea Monographs on Dutch and Flemish Painting, XIV). Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1999. 405pp, 39 col. plates, 534 [...] Read More
Pleasant Places. The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael
The author of an earlier study on panoramic world landscapes of the sixteenth century, Walter Gibson concentrates here on what Simon Schama has termed the 'plotless places', views of ordinary scenery, [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Eyes
Incisive art criticism, many enlivening anecdotes, and excellent illustrations distinguish this book from other well-researched novels about Rembrandt (for example, by Van Loon, Schmitt, Mens, Mee, [...] Read More