17th-Century Dutch Republic

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

Two Publications on Gerrit van Honthorst

By various authors

Review published November 2000

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

By Walter S. Gibson

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2000. 320 pp, 16 col., 24 b&w illus. ISBN 0-520-21698-9

Review published November 2000

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

By Simon Schama

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 750 pp, numerous illus., mostly in good colour, ISBN 0-679-40256-x

Review published May 2000

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

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17th-Century Dutch Republic