17th-Century Dutch Republic

Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition

By Stephanie S. Dickey and Jochen Sander, eds.

[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.

Review published September 2021

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

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History, Vol. 312/45)

By Martha Moffitt Peacock

Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020. 530 pp, 257 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-39903-7.

Review published August 2021

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age is a timely study by Martha Moffitt Peacock that reflects revived scholarly interest in female patrons, artists, [...] Read More

Dutch Golden Age(s): The Shaping of a Cultural Community

By Jan Blanc, ed.

Gouden Eeuw: New Perspectives on Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art, vol. 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021. 243 pp, 66 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-5910-7-0.

Review published May 2021

The tag “Dutch Golden Age” evokes a luminous glow, as a sunset over vistas with ruins or harbors; it calls to mind lavish spreads of food in costly vessels, of well-dressed men gathered to celebrate [...] Read More

Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700

By Elizabeth Sutton, ed.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 190 pp, 39 illus, 8 col. pls. ISBN 978-94-6372-140-0.

Review published March 2021

The early modern Netherlands were, statistically speaking, a land of women: estimates suggest that during the seventeenth century women outnumbered men four to three. These women were not only [...] Read More

The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Painting: The Inder Rieden Collection

By Gerlinde de Beer, with Franz Ossing and Jaap van der Veen, edited by Charles Dumas

Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2019. 4 Volumes. 348 + 348 + 368 + 320 pp; 900+ illustrations. ISBN 978-90-5997-268-1.

Review published January 2021

This lavishly produced four-volume boxed set accompanied an exhibition in 2019 at the Bredius Museum in The Hague devoted to the collection of Dutch marine paintings assembled by the London collector [...] Read More

Leiden circa 1630. Rembrandt Emerges

By Jacquelyn N. Coutré, ed., with contributions by Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Stephanie S. Dickey, Piet Bakker, and Janet M. Brooke

Exh. Cat. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, August 24 – December 1, 2019; The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, March 7 – September 27, 2020; The McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, December 5, 2020 – February 21, 2021; The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, March 13 – May 30, 2021. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2019. 359 pp, 205 illus., mostly in color. ISBN 978-1-55339-419-8. In English and French.

Review published September 2020

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre joined the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death (or immortality, if you will) with a traveling exhibition combining collection works and loans [...] Read More

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17th-Century Dutch Republic