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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
The Golden Age in Historical Perspective
This fine translation of De Gouden Eeuw in perspectif: Het beeld van de Nederlandse zevendiende-eeuwse schilderkunst in later tijd(Amsterdam, 1992) will be most welcome to the increasing number of [...] Read More
‘Rembrandt toont sijn konst’: Bijdragen over Rembrandt-documenten uit de periode 1648-1756
Despite the prodigious amount of scrutiny given to the documentation pertaining to Rembrandt's life and works during the last century and a half, there is still much to be done. The present volume [...] Read More