Abraham Bloemaert stands apart from artists of the Dutch Baroque for his remarkable career of over six decades. During that career, Bloemaert evolved from being one of the foremost Dutch mannerists, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Seductress of Sight: Studies in Dutch Art of the Golden Age (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, vol. 2)
This welcome volume gathers together, in English translation, six studies that appeared in Dutch between 1990 and 1993. Studying the history of painting entails a willingness to yield to Pictura, the [...] Read More
The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age
The fourteen thoughtful and thought-provoking essays in this volume tackle diverse artistic, civic, and religious issues, all loosely concerned with the role of the individual in Dutch society during [...] Read More
Public and Private Spaces: Works of Art in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Houses (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, vol. 3)
This indispensable and admirably lucid volume examines some key issues surrounding the display of art (predominantly paintings) in Dutch homes during the seventeenth century. Thanks to the research of [...] Read More
Questions of Meaning; Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting
Eddy de Jongh’s long-awaited Questions of Meaning; Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting (originally published in Dutch in 1995) presents for the first time in English a collection of [...] Read More
Zeichnungen von Meisterhand. Die Sammlung Uffenbach aus der Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen
In 1763 the Frankfurt patrician Johann Friedrich Arman Uffenbach bequeathed his collection of books, instruments, about ten thousand prints, including an impressive Rembrandt collection, and one [...] Read More