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Rembrandt’s Eyes

By Simon Schama

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 750 pp, numerous illus., mostly in good colour, ISBN 0-679-40256-x

Review published May 2000

Incisive art criticism, many enlivening anecdotes, and excellent illustrations distinguish this book from other well-researched novels about Rembrandt (for example, by Van Loon, Schmitt, Mens, Mee, [...] Read More

The Golden Age in Historical Perspective

By Frans Grijzenhout and Henk van Veen (eds.); translated by Andrew McCormick

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 333 pp, 73 b&w illus. ISBN 0-521-49621-7

Review published May 2000

This fine translation of De Gouden Eeuw in perspectif: Het beeld van de Nederlandse zevendiende-eeuwse schilderkunst in later tijd(Amsterdam, 1992) will be most welcome to the increasing number of [...] Read More

‘Rembrandt toont sijn konst’: Bijdragen over Rembrandt-documenten uit de periode 1648-1756

By Michiel Roscam Abbing

Leiden: Primavera Pers, 1999. 272 pp, 10 col. pls, 47 b&w illus. ISBN 90-74310-58-3

Review published May 2000

Despite the prodigious amount of scrutiny given to the documentation pertaining to Rembrandt's life and works during the last century and a half, there is still much to be done. The present volume [...] Read More

Two Surveys of Early Netherlandish Painting

By various authors
Review published May 2000

From van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edited by Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Julien [...] Read More

Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing

By Lynn F. Jacobs

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 352 pp, 91 illus. ISBN 0-521-47483-3

Review published May 2000

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, large-scale, lavishly carved wooden altarpieces achieved great popularity in the South Netherlands. Over 350 of these splendid works survive, yet until [...] Read More

Four Volumes Hollstein: The Sandrarts

By various authors
Review published May 2000

John Roger Paas, The Sandrarts. Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, vols. XXXVIII to XLI. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1994-1997. Vol. XXXVIII (Jacob von Sandrart) 251 [...] Read More

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