This is the first monographic study based on archival research that is devoted to the Antwerp art market during the 'long' sixteenth century, from 1490 to 1609. Filip Vermeylen's pivotal thesis is [...] Read More
Book Reviews
From Flanders to Florence. The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500
Paula Nuttall's book addresses the popularity of Netherlandish painting in Italy and its influence on Florentine artists. It does so in four parts: Context, Contacts, Ownership, and Influence. The [...] Read More
Art from the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419
This catalogue - the English language version of L'art à la cour de Bourgogne: le mécénat de Philippe le Hardi et de Jean sans Peur (1364-1419) - accompanied the exhibition commemorating the 600th [...] Read More
Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil
The Groningen native Albert Eckhout spent seven years in Brazil (1637-1644) and as a result he holds an important historical position as one of the first trained European artists in the New World. His [...] Read More
Two Books on Rembrandt
Alison McQueen, The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Masterin Nineteenth-Century France. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 388 pp, 19 color plates, 80 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More
Images of the Feminine in Rembrandt’s Work
This book is the result of a doctoral dissertation written for the Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen. In a compact volume comprised of six chapters, Anat Gilboa sets herself a daunting task: a survey [...] Read More