Book Reviews

Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age

By Karina H. Corrigan, Jan van Campen, and Femke Diercks, with Janet C. Blyberg, eds.

[Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 17, 2015 – January 17, 2016; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, February 27 – June 5, 2016.] Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2015, distributed by Yale University Press. 356 pp, 112 illus. ISBN 978-0-875-77229-5

Review published November 2016

In 1665, Jacob Jansz. Coeman, a Dutch painter working in Batavia (present day Jakarta), painted a portrait of a family group (Rijksmusem, Amsterdam). He shows the merchant Pieter Cnoll, his wife, [...] Read More

Masters of the Everyday. Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer

By Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Quentin Buvelot

[Cat. exh. The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, November 13, 2015 – February 14, 2016; The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, March 11 – July 17, 2016; Mauritshuis, The Hague, September 29, 2016 – January 8, 2017.] London: Royal Collection Trust, 2015. 176 pp, 150 color plates. ISBN 978-1-909741-19-5

Review published November 2016

The British Royal family holds one of the world’s greatest private collections of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Over the years, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been particularly generous in [...] Read More

On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court

By Erin Griffey

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2015. 371 pp, 131 col. and b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-21400-0

Review published November 2016

Erin Griffey in this attractive book fills out our picture of Queen Henrietta Maria, the valiant but controversial consort of King Charles I of Great Britain, by describing the material culture that [...] Read More

Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Achilles to the Graces (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 1)

By Elizabeth McGrath, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healy, Bert Schepers, Carl Van de Velde and Karolien De Clippel

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2016. 2 vols. ISBN 978-1-909400-47-4

Review published November 2016

The publication of the first volume on Rubens’s mythological paintings is another milestone for the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, arguably the longest and most exhaustive catalogue raisonńe [...] Read More

Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries (Studies in European Urban History, 1100-1800, 34)

By Neil De Marchi and Sophie Raux, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014. xiii, 324 pp, b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54808-1

Review published November 2016

A detail of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s well-known painting Gersaint’s Shopsign (1720) figures on the cover of this volume. The painting depicts the shop of the art dealer Edme-François Gersaint as a site [...] Read More

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca. 1475-1533). De Renaissance in Amsterdam en Alkmaar

By Daantje Meuwissen

With contributions by Peter van den Brink et al. Cat. exh. Amsterdam Museum; Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar; Sint Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, March 15 – June 29, 2014. Zwolle: Waanders, 2014. 319 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-94-91196-96-6

Review published November 2016

In northern Europe, the early sixteenth-century art world was crowded with artists of extraordinary talent: Jan Gossart, Bernaert van Orley, and Lucas van Leyden in the Low Countries, as well as [...] Read More

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