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Confronting the Golden Age: Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting, 1680-1750

By Junko Aono

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. 272 pp, 129 color illus. ISBN 978-90-8964-568-5

Review published April 2016

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

Tronies. Das Gesicht in der Frühen Neuzeit

By Dagmar Hirschfelder and León Krempel, eds.

Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2014. 135 pp, 15 col. illus. ISBN 978-3-7861-2694-2

Review published April 2016

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

By Ronni Baer, with essays by Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter, Marieke de Winkel, and Sanny de Zoete. Essays translated by Diane Webb

[Cat. exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 11, 2015 – January 18, 2016; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, February 20 – May 29, 2016.] Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2015. 344pp, 180 color illustrations. ISBN 978-0-87846-830-0

Review published April 2016

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)

By Corina Kleinert

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 397 pp, 32 col. plates, 219 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55038-1

Review published April 2016

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)

By Hans Devisscher and Hans Vlieghe

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2014, 2 vols. 400 pp, 109 b&w illus., 95 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-872501-71-0

Review published April 2016

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

By Christina M. Anderson

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2015. 264 pp, 50 color illus. ISBN 978-0-300-20968-6

Review published April 2016

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

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