This volume is number 14 of the Le dessins sous-jacent et la technologie dans la peinture series, which has been edited and organized biannually since 1975 by the indefatigable team of Hélène [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Die Schwalbacher Reise. Gezeichnet von Anton Mirou, in Kupfer gestochen von Mattäus Merian d. Ä., 1620
Some later moments of German art history seem forever viewed out of peripheral vision. One particular and crucial moment is the so-called 'Frankenthal School' at the turn of the seven-teenth century. [...] Read More
Het Kabinet der Statuen
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
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
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
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