Gerlinde de Beer's monograph on the great Dutch marine painter Ludolf Bakhuizen is a welcome addition to the strikingly limited scholarship on this artist. The foremost seascape painter in the Dutch [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800
This exhibition and its catalogue survey portraiture and portrait patronage in Amsterdam from the city's rise as the leading mercantile center of the Netherlands through its sedate quiescence in the [...] Read More
The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston
After having been without a curator of Dutch and Flemish art for several years, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston hired Ronni Baer in 2000. (Formally, she is the Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of [...] Read More
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland (Studies in Netherlandish Visual Culture, 2)
This book is about Dutch genre painting of love and courtship in the context of the youth culture that flourished during the first half of the seventeenth century. It focuses on outdoor and indoor [...] Read More
Inspired by Italy. Dutch Landscape Painting 1600-1700
That Inspired by Italy was the first exhibition of Italianate landscape painting in Great Britain is 'really a theme for the philosopher.' The phrase comes from a relevant source, Henry James's [...] Read More
Prosper Arents: De Bibliotheek van Pieter Pauwel Rubens: een reconstructie
In 1675 Joachim von Sandrart wrote of Peter Paul Rubens, whom he had met personally, that his erudition was marked by 'extraordinary genius, wit and understanding.' Art historians have always seen [...] Read More