Book Reviews

The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt

By Ernst van de Wetering and Bernhard Schackenburg, eds.

[Cat. exh. Staatliche Museen Kassel, November 3, 2001 - January 27, 2002; Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, February 20 - May 26, 2002.] Wolfratshausen: Edition Minerva, 2001. 415 pp, 152 color, 121 b&w plates. ISBN 3-932353-59-5

Review published November 2004

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

By Adriaan van der Willigen and Fred G. Meijer

Leiden: Primavera Pers in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), 2003. 232 pp, no illus. ISBN 90-74310-85-0

Review published November 2004

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

History in Dutch Studies (Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, 14)

By Robert Howell and Jolands [sic] Vanderwal Taylor, eds.

Lanham (MD)- New York-Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., 2003. 246 pp, 9 b&w illus. ISBN 0-7618-2567-3

Review published November 2004

This volume brings together papers from the Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in May 1998, by our sister organization, the [...] Read More

Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam; Gender, Childhood and the City

By Angela Vanhaelen

Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. XII, 219 pp, 42 b&w illus. ISBN 0-75460-844-1

Review published November 2004

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

Love Letters. Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer

By Peter C. Sutton, Lisa Vergara, and Ann Jensen Adams, with Jennifer Kilian and Marjorie E. Wieseman

[Cat. exh. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, January 31 - May 2, 2004; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October 1 - December 31, 2003.] Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2003. 208 pp, 76 color plates, 94 b&w illus. ISBN 0-9720736-6-3

Review published November 2004

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

By Christopher Lloyd

[Cat. exh. Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, May 14 - November 7, 2004.] Royal Collection Enterprises, 2004. ISBN 1-902163 -90-7

Review published November 2004

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

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