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