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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Rembrandt-Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion; Samuel van Hoogstraten: The Illusionist; The Life and Work of the Painter: Dirck van Hoogstraten (1596-1640).

By Sabine Penot; David de Witt, Leonore van Sloten et al.; Michiel Roscam Abbing, Robert Schillemans

Rembrandt-Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, October 8, 2024 – January 12, 2025. Exh. cat. ed. by Sabine Pénot. Veurne (Belgium): Hannibal Books, 2024. 288 pp, fully illustrated. English hardcover: ISBN 978-94-6494-131-9.

Samuel van Hoogstraten: The Illusionist.
Amsterdam, Museum Rembrandthuis, February 1 – May 4, 2025. Exh. cat. by David de Witt, Leonore van Sloten et al. Zwolle: WBOOKS and Museum Rembrandthuis, 2025. English and Dutch editions, 144 pp, fully illustrated. English: ISBN 978-94-6258-68-02; Dutch: ISBN 978-94-6258-67-89

The Life and Work of the Painter: Dirck van Hoogstraten (1596-1640).
By Michiel Roscam Abbing, Robert Schillemans. Zwolle: WBOOKS, 2025. English and Dutch editions, 240 pp, illustrated, chiefly in color. Paperback. English: ISBN 978-94-6258-67-960; Dutch: ISBN 978-94-6258-67-72.

Review published August 2025

These three publications, one monograph and two exhibition catalogues, complement one another, celebrating three artists of very distinct characters, abilities, ambitions and generations: Dirck van [...] Read More

Careers by Design: Hendrick Goltzius & Peter Paul Rubens

By Nina Schleif (curator)

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, June 13 – September 15, 2024
Exh. cat. edited by Nina Schleif. Munich: Hirmer, 2024. 304 pp, 194 color illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-4352-2.

Review published November 2024

The life and career of Peter Paul Rubens were defined by his foreign travels, both artistic and diplomatic. In a near-constant to and fro across Europe, two seemingly essential journeys and exchanges [...] Read More

Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age.

By Marsely Kehoe

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 244 pp, illus. in color. ISBN 978-9463723633.

Review published September 2024

Marsely Kehoe begins her recent monograph, Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture, with two big claims: that the Dutch Republic’s global reach was key to the cultural as well as the [...] Read More

Fantasmagorie. Streghe, demoni e tentazioni nell’arte fiamminga e olandese del Seicento

By Tania de Nile

Rome: Officina Libraria: 2023. 336 pp, 307 col. illus. ISBN 9788833672267.

Review published June 2024

The European fascination with the various manifestations of witches, demons and evil temptations seems endless; it generated a flourishing production of imagery that was supported by literary culture. [...] Read More

Vermeer and the Art of Love (Northern Lights)

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine

London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2022. 160pp, 93 col. illus. ISBN 978-1848224896.

Review published February 2024

When one looks deeply at a Vermeer, one often borrows – however contingently – a lover’s rapt gaze. As Edward Snow observed, the painter’s “most profoundly dialectical”[1] tendencies hold the viewer’s [...] Read More

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-Century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune (Northern Lights)

By Wayne Franits

London: Lund Humphries, 2023. 168 pp, 60 col. illus. ISBN 978-1848225466.

Review published February 2024

Wayne Franits’s second monograph on Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706) reads as an ardent love letter to the late seventeenth-century Dutch artist. A meticulous analysis of a selection of paintings from [...] Read More

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