This remarkably useful book is part of the rapidly proliferatingCambridge Companion series, which encompasses sub-series in literature, philosophy, music, and beginning last year, history of art. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Allart van Everdingen 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape
In Allart van Everdingen, 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape, Alice I. Davies has produced another important monograph. She, in collaboration with Frederic J. Duparc, has also [...] Read More
Reframing Rembrandt, Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
The question of Rembrandt's theological position has occupied Rembrandt specialists for centuries. Michael Zell's important study offers a solution to this problem by situating Rembrandt's religious [...] Read More
The Low Countries and the New World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations (Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 13)
The American Association for Netherlandic Studies (AANS, pronounced like the Bostonion version of 'aunts' by those who love it) is to HNA what a lavish rijstafel is to a warm bowl of hutspot. Attend [...] Read More
Art & Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt
The tension between semblance and reality lies at the heart of Mariët Westermann's concerns with this intriguing catalogue for the recent exhibition she guest-curated at the Denver and Newark Art [...] Read More
La Almoneda del siglo. Relaciones art’sticas entre España y Gran Bretaña, 1604-1655
The 'sale of the century' refers to the dispersal of the collection of Charles I of England, one of the most beautiful art collections at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in the [...] Read More