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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
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
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)
The wide-ranging material discussed in Zell’s welcome study relates to the values ascribed to art objects. Quantitative monetary currency provides one measure, and others are qualitative: diplomatic [...] Read More