Poor Tournai! A decade ago Albert Châtelet demonstrated that Van der Weyden's Seven Sacraments Altar, long regarded as one of the city's most important fifteenth-century works, had actually been [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht Work: Paintings and Drawings by the 17th-century Master of Perspective
This marvelous exhibition, and its handsome and informative catalogue, have succeeded in bringing alive a fascinating period in Pieter Saenredam’s life, his twenty-week sojourn in Utrecht from [...] Read More
In helder licht. Abraham en Jacob van Strij. Hollandse meesters van landschap en interieur omstreeks 1800
The seventeenth century will always be, for most of us, the "Golden Age" of Dutch art. At its close, economic stagnation and the increasing cultural hegemony of France sent the vibrantly original [...] Read More
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1562-1638. A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné
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
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