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
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries
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
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)
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
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)
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