Book Reviews

De celebratie van de macht: Presentatieminiaturen en aanverwante voorstellingen in handschriften van Filips de Goede (1419-1467) en Karel de Stoute (1467-1477)

By Cyriel Stroo

Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 2002. 388 pp, 143 pp. of plates. ISBN 90-6569-911-2

Review published April 2003

Cyriel Stoo's book, De celebratie van de macht, uses the presentation scenes in Burgundian manuscripts made for Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold as a starting point, leading the reader [...] Read More

Aelbert Cuyp

By Arthur K. Wheelock (ed.), with contributions by Alan Chong, Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, and Arthur K. Wheelock

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington, October 7, 2001 - January 13, 2002; National Gallery, London, February 13 - May 12, 2002; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, June 7 - September 1, 2002]. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2001. 320 pp, 110 col. illus. ISBN 0-89468-286-5 (softcover); ISBN 0-500-51057-1 (hardcover)

Review published November 2002

The pleasure of losing oneself in the golden world of Aelbert Cuyp is enhanced by total immersion. For this reason viewers of the Cuyp exhibition in Washington, London, and Amsterdam owe the [...] Read More

The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer

By Wayne E. Franits (ed.)

Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 241 pp, 36 plates, 1 folded map. ISBN 0-521-65330-4 (hardcover); ISBN 0-521-65331-2 (softcover)

Review published November 2002

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

Allart van Everdingen 1621-1675. First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape

By Alice I. Davies, in collaboration with Frederic J. Duparc

Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 2001 (Aetas Aurea, XV). 309 pp, 14 color plates, 235 b&w illus. and 232 comparative illus. ISBN 90-70288-27-3

Review published November 2002

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

By Michael Zell

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 264 pp, b&w illus. ISBN 0-520-22741-7

Review published November 2002

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)

By ohanna C. Prins, Bettina Brandt, Timothy Stevens and Thomas F. Shannon (eds.)

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. 248 pp, ISBN 0-7618-1945-2

Review published November 2002

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