London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022. 256 pp, 169 illus. ISBN 10-1838395326, ISBN 13-978-1838395322.
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
English ed. translated by Lynn Richards. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 17, 2019 – January 19, 2020; National Gallery, London, February 22 – September 20, 2020. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, distributed by Yale University Press, 2019. Paperback, 224 pp., 184 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1 -5709 654-5.
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
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 508 pp, 205 color illus. ISBN 978-9-463726-42-9.
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
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 452 pp, 123 b&w illus. ISBN 9789462981386.
Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 304 pp, 44 b&w illus. ISBN 9780198836261.
Henk van Nierop, The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 452 pp, 123 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More
317; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 48). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. xxx, 258 pp, 138 illus. ISBN 978-90-38266-4 (hardback); -2 (e-book).
Constantijn Huygens’s oft-cited remarks about the young Rembrandt’s (and Lievens’s) disinterest in traveling to Italy, justified in part by the wealth of Italian art that could then be found in the [...] Read More
[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, July 16 – September 6, 2021; Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, October 6, 2021 – January 30, 2022.] New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 2021. 384 pp, 250 color & b&w illus. ISBN 9780300249934.
That such a major exhibition dedicated to situating Rembrandt in the competitive art market of Amsterdam could be successfully presented this year, after delays due to the world health crisis and its [...] Read More