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Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition

By Stephanie S. Dickey and Jochen Sander, eds.

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, July 16 – September 6, 2021; Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, October 6, 2021 – January 30, 2022.] New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 2021. 384 pp, 250 color & b&w illus. ISBN 9780300249934.

Review published September 2021

That such a major exhibition dedicated to situating Rembrandt in the competitive art market of Amsterdam could be successfully presented this year, after delays due to the world health crisis and its [...] Read More

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History, Vol. 312/45)

By Martha Moffitt Peacock

Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020. 530 pp, 257 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-39903-7.

Review published August 2021

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age is a timely study by Martha Moffitt Peacock that reflects revived scholarly interest in female patrons, artists, [...] Read More

Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages

By Richard Barber

Woodbridge (Suffolk): The Boydell Press, 2020. xxiii, 360 pp, 8 b&w, 104 col. illus. ISBN 9781783274710.

Review published July 2021

When a venerated medievalist who has contributed great insights into the cultural practices of late medieval elites pens a book that distills a life’s work, it is best to pay attention. This is the [...] Read More

Maarten van Heemskerck. Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination

By Tatjana Bartsch

Veröffentlichungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte. Munich: Hirmer, 2019. 620 pp, cat. fully illustrated in color, with 114 b&w and col. comparative illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-3294-6.

Review published July 2021

Tatjana Bartsch’s book on Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574, in Rome 1532–c. 1537) delivers the most thorough analysis to date of the artist’s extant corpus of Roman drawings. As renowned as is [...] Read More

Anthony van Dyck & the Art of Portraiture

By Christopher White

London: Modern Art Press, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021. 295 pp, 261 illus. in color. ISBN 978-0-9568007-9-4.

Review published July 2021

In general, Anthony van Dyck has been better served by catalogues than monographs. Any study of the artist will have as its point of departure the monumental 2004 catalogue raisonné by Susan Barnes, [...] Read More