This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
The Fertile Ground of Painting: Seventeenth-Century Still Lifes & Nature Pieces
Attempts to reconstruct how early modern Europeans understood the workings of visual representation have usually conceptualized the mimetic picture as either a mirror reflecting the world or a window [...] Read More
Jacobus Vrel. Searching for Clues to an Enigmatic Artist
This remarkable monograph was produced to accompany the eponymous international exhibition of Vrel’s paintings that will be on view at the Mauritshuis (Feb. 16 – May 29, 2023) and the Fondation [...] Read More
Grinling Gibbons and his Contemporaries (1650-1700): The Golden Age of Woodcarving in The Netherlands and Britain
Ada de Wit’s new book performs many services. Most narrowly, it is an insightful monographic treatment of the greatest decorative sculptor of the second half of the seventeenth century in both England [...] Read More
The Intimate Rembrandt
Our enduring attraction to Rembrandt and the vast art historical scholarship devoted to his works can be largely attributed to the artist’s boundless visual curiosity about everything he saw around [...] Read More
Nicolaes Maes. Dutch Master of the Golden Age
This concise, well-illustrated catalogue was published to accompany the first monographic exhibition devoted to Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), presented in The Hague from October 17, 2019 to January 19, [...] Read More