The Groningen native Albert Eckhout spent seven years in Brazil (1637-1644) and as a result he holds an important historical position as one of the first trained European artists in the New World. His [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Books on Rembrandt
Alison McQueen, The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Masterin Nineteenth-Century France. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 388 pp, 19 color plates, 80 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More
Images of the Feminine in Rembrandt’s Work
This book is the result of a doctoral dissertation written for the Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen. In a compact volume comprised of six chapters, Anat Gilboa sets herself a daunting task: a survey [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher
The end of the twentieth century, and beginning of the twenty-first, have seen no diminution of interest in the seventeenth-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn, at least as gauged by museum exhibitions. [...] Read More
The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt
Sometimes it is necessary to take a small step backward in order to get set for a long leap forward. Such was the sense of the exhibition "The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt," sponsored by the [...] Read More
A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725
The biographical lexicon is one of those genres in which scholars in the humanities summarize the current state of knowledge in their field. It is an indispensable tool for those wanting to get quick [...] Read More