Junko Aono’s new book explores the practices of genre painters active from 1680 to 1750, a period that has traditionally attracted limited scholarly attention. It participates in the endeavor in [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Tronies. Das Gesicht in der Frühen Neuzeit
The tronie has been the subject of serious art historical investigation since Lyckle de Vries’s 1990 publication and the symposium in The Hague in 2000. Recent monographs by Dagmar Hirschfelder (2008) [...] Read More
Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ groundbreaking exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, explores the social condition of class in seventy-five glorious [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his Landscapes: Ideas on Nature and Art, (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XX)
This well designed and handsomely produced book on Rubens’s landscapes brings together ideas that have clearly been developed over a number of years of thinking and research. It grew directly out of [...] Read More
Rubens. The Life of Christ before the Passion: The Youth of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, V, 1)
This beautifully produced two-volume addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dominated by the large number of representations of the Adoration of the Magi and the Adoration of the [...] Read More
The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection
Daniel Nijs, the Flemish merchant and entrepreneur, the subject of this excellent in-depth study by Christina Anderson, is best known for his part in the sale of the Gonzaga collection to Charles I. [...] Read More