Book Reviews

Het Kabinet der Statuen

By Wybrand de Geest

Reprint of the edition Amsterdam 1702, with an explanatory text by Jochen Becker. Hamburg: Conferencepoint Verlag, 2003. 156 & XXIV pp., with fold-out images, ISBN 3-936406-05-7 (paperback), ISBN 3-936406-04-9 (hardback)

Review published April 2004

The Frisian painter and writer Wybrand de Geest (around 1660-1716) is often confused with his grandfather who had the same name (1591-after 1661). The latter was also called "the Eagle" in honor of [...] Read More

Rembrandt’s Jews

By Steven Nadler

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 250 pp, 50 illus. (18 color, 32 b&w), ISBN 0-226-56736-2

Review published April 2004

This study is a thoughtful, lively, and wide-ranging discussion of Amsterdam's Jews - as they appear in Rembrandt's art, as they had business dealings with the artist, and as they lived as new [...] Read More

Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age: Paintings and People in Historical Perspective

By Klaske Muizelaar and Derek Phillips

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. 246 pp, 54 illus., 25 in color. ISBN 0-300-09817-0

Review published April 2004

The central thesis of this book is a relatively simple one: that the primary destination of most paintings produced in the Dutch Republic was the home, and that in this environment, men and women [...] Read More

Jan Brueghels Antwerpen: Die flämischen Gemälde in Schwerin

By Gero Seelig

[Cat. exh. Staatliches Museum Schwerin, August 15 - November 30, 2003.] Schwerin: Staatliches Museum, 2003. 176 pp. ISBN 3-86106-083-3

Review published April 2004

The art collection of Schwerin's Staatliches Museum was largely assembled by the Dukes of Mecklenburg, and in particular by Duke Christian Ludwig II (1683-1756). The merit of the dukes consists in [...] Read More

Scherpenheuvel. Het Jeruzalem van de Lage Landen

By Luc Duerloo and Marc Wingens

Leuven: Uitgeverij Davidsfonds, 2002. 192 pp, 2 b&w illus., 144 color plates. ISBN 90-5826-182-4

Review published April 2004

The pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel is arguably the most significant building commissioned by the archdukes Albrecht and Isabella during their reign as sovereigns of the Spanish [...] Read More

Leben mit Kunst, Wirken durch Kunst. Sammelwesen und Hofkunst unter Margarete von Österreich, Regentin der Niederlande

By Dagmar Eichberger

(Burgundica V, ed. by Jean-Marie Cauchies). Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. XIV, 527 pp., 139 illus., XII plates, 8 of which in color. ISBN 2-503-99129-7

Review published April 2004

Dagmar Eichberger's seminal study on Margaret of Austria, regent of the Low Countries (1507-1530), as a collector, has set a new standard in the study of Netherlandish court art of the Early Modern [...] Read More

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