Somewhat surprisingly, the present exhibition is the first ever devoted to Pieter de Hooch in The Netherlands. There have been exhibitions that featured his work in numbers among other Delft Masters, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Value of Taste: Auction Prices and the Evolution of Taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age Painting 1642-2011
While a unique artwork cannot be easily reduced to objective data, Peter Carpreau effectively argues that the price paid for a work at auction is a data point that “reflect(s) taste at a certain time [...] Read More
Jacob Jordaens y España
This is a welcome addition to the body of literature on Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), an artist still insufficiently scrutinized, notwithstanding a flurry of publications during the present decade. [...] Read More
Father and Son Weenix: Jan Baptist Weenix. The Paintings: A Story of Success and Bankruptcy in Seventeenth-Century Holland & Jan Weenix. The Paintings: Master of the Dutch Hunting Still Life
An essential reference source, the catalogue raisonné is foundational for scholarship and thinking in art history. Thus Anke Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven’s publication of large volumes on two important [...] Read More
Van Dyck’s Hosts in Genoa: Lucas and Cornelis de Wael’s Lives, Business Activities and Works
In a recent discussion of Flemish art dealers and agents who were active in seventeenth-century Italy, Isabella Cecchini claimed that scholars have paid far more attention to the presence of these [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Religious Art for the Urban Community
Peasant subjects have always received the focus in Pieter Bruegel studies, at the expense of all but a few of his religious subjects. Despite the recent appearance of another volume from Brill, Pieter [...] Read More