What did Rembrandt know, and how did he know it? This variant on the classic Water-gate interrogation forms the basic inquiry of this stimulating new essay by Amy Golahny, Professor at Lycoming [...] Read More
Book Reviews
From Criminal to Courtier, The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 (History of Warfare)
It is a rare book on early modern Netherlandish art that opens with a denunciation of US human rights abuses and military policies. Prof. Kunzle immediately warns the reader of his partisan stance. [...] Read More
The Reception of P. P. Rubens’s Palazzi di Genova during the 17th Century in Europe: Questions and Problems
The development of the architectural treatise in Renaissance Europe has become a popular area of research, drawing on scholarship in the history of publication, printing, reading, and a host of allied [...] Read More
Tessin. Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. Royal Architect and Visionary (Nationalmuseum Skriftserie, N.S. 16)
The Millennium in Sweden also saw the start of several publications and of an exhibition on the Royal architect, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-1728). To celebrate its tercentenary, the Bank of [...] Read More
Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany
The effects of the Reformation have dominated scholarship on later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in Germany. Both iconoclasm and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War created the [...] Read More
Het Geheim van Gouda: De cartons van de Goudse Glazen
Gouda's Sint-Janskerk's famous sixteenth-century cycle of monumental stained-glass windows was produced by several teams of artists over the course of about fifty years. Less well known than the [...] Read More