Catchpenny prints rank among the most fascinating ephemera produced in the Dutch Republic. Yet aside from a series of what are essentially coffee-table books penned by Maurits de Meyer decades ago, an [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Love Letters. Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer
A decade ago, few connoisseurs of old master painting would have listed the Bruce Museum, in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut, among major exhibition venues. Peter Sutton, who joined the Bruce as [...] Read More
Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age
Visitors to Edinburgh in the summer of 2004 had the good fortune of finding the crème de la crème of the British Royal Collection's Dutch paintings in the Queen's Gallery at the Palace of [...] Read More
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613/14-1654). Ein flämischer Nachfolger Van Dycks (Pictura Nova, 9)
These two handsomely produced volumes publish the work that was begun as a dissertation, submitted in 2000 to the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen and written under the supervision of Karl Arndt. [...] Read More
Pan & Syrinx. Eine erotische Jagd. Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel und ihre Zeitgenossen
With this exhibition the Staatliche Museen in Kassel celebrated the repurchase in 2001 of the cabinet piece, Pan and Syrinx of c.1617, painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), who added the figures, [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens: The Life of Achilles
What prompted Rubens to produce a tapestry series with eight scenes devoted to the life of the Greek hero Achilles? What do we know about Rubens's working method in producing preparatory works for the [...] Read More