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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Rembrandt’s Roughness; Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India; Rembrandt’s Holland

By Nicola Suthor; Stephanie Schrader, et al; Larry Silver
Review published March 2019

Nicola Suthor, Rembrandt’s Roughness. Princeton – Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. 240 pp, 82 color illus, 79 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-691-17244-6. Stephanie Schrader, ed., with [...] Read More

Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries

By Stephanie S. Dickey, ed.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 387 pp, 187 b&w, 29 color illus.
ISBN 978-94-6298-400-4.

Review published January 2019

Stephanie Dickey, editor of Rembrandt and his Circle, dedicated this volume to Dr. Alfred Bader and Dr. Isabel Bader in 2017. The recent, sad passing of Alfred Bader on 23 December 2018, who [...] Read More

Jan Lievens, Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Early Leiden Work 1623–1632

By Bernhard Schnackenburg

Translated from the German by Kristin Lohse Belkin. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016. 488 pp, 529 color illustrations. ISBN 978-3-7319-0333-8.
Also available in German: idem., Jan Lievens. Freund und Rivale des jungen Rembrandt mit einem kritischen Katalog des Leidener Frühwerks 1623-1632. ISBN 978-7319-0081-8.

Review published September 2018

This book presents an ambitious and original reappraisal of the early work of Jan Lievens (1607–1674), the Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker whose formative period in Leiden was intimately [...] Read More

Netherlandish Art in its Global Context (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 66, 2016)

By Thijs Weststeijn, Eric Jorink, Frits Scholten, eds.

Leiden: Brill, 2016. 295 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-33497-7.

Review published June 2018

In a 2006 state-of-the field essay, I wrote that "scholars have recently begun to examine the contact between Europe's art and other regions of the world after 1492."[i] In the dozen years since then, [...] Read More

Dutch and Flemish Paintings: Dulwich Picture Gallery

By Michiel Jonker and Ellinoor Bergvelt

London: Dulwich Picture Gallery in association with D. Giles Limited, 2016. 352 pp, numerous illus. ISBN 978-1-907804-74-8.

Review published May 2018

The collection catalog is an unforgiving literary genre. Its purpose is to serve as a work of reference for scholars seeking information about individual works for their own purposes. At a minimum, it [...] Read More

Jacob Duck c.1600-1667: Catalogue Raisonné (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 16)

By Jochai Rosen

Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. 292 pp, 120 b&w, 151 color illus. ISBN 978-90-272-4968-5.

Review published February 2018

The seventeenth-century Utrecht genre painter Jacob Cornelisz Duck (c 1600-1667) is best known for his depictions of soldiers and prostitutes, but his oeuvre also includes scenes of tranquil [...] Read More

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