This book is in many regards an extraordinary contribution to Dutch art history. It is the product of nearly fifty years’ of engagement with Cornelis van Haarlem, the gifted painter whose twenty-year [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Paintings: Holland XVII-XIX Centuries
As the author of this catalog Marina Senenko notes, among the collections of Dutch paintings in Russia the Pushkin Museum of Art is second only to the Hermitage. Given the five landscapes by Jacob van [...] Read More
De ‘heydensche fabulen’ in de schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw. Schilderijen met verhalende onderwerpen uit de klassieke mythologie in de noordelijke Nederlanden, circa 1590-1670
With 25 pages of appendices, 100 pages of notes and 298 illustrations for 160 pages of text, this edition of Sluijter’s dissertation reveals the labor behind a conscientiously developed inquiry into a [...] Read More
Dankzij de tiende muze. 33 opstellen uit ‘Kunstschrift.’
This compilation of articles, all but one of which was originally published in Kunstschrift, amply fulfills its stated goal of presenting the variety within Eddy de Jongh’s scholarship. The author [...] Read More
Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London
"Why," asks this volume’s chief editor, "do recognized and celebrated achievements, across several fields of endeavor, tend to cluster within cities over relatively short periods of time?" (p. 5) [...] Read More
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture
As Emilie Gordenker says, the history of dress has often in the past been regarded as a suitable occupation for amateurs or, perish the thought, as ‘women’s work.’ But now at last it has moved into [...] Read More