This publication, the proceedings of a symposium organized in 2009 by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, considers from numerous vantage points the tidal shifts in [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Exhibition Catalogs on Rembrandt
Jonathan Bikker and Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie E. Wieseman and Erik Hinterding, with contributions by Marijn Schapelhouman and Anna Krekeler. Editorial Consultant Christopher White, Rembrandt: The [...] Read More
Bilderzählungen in der Vogelmalerei des niederländischen Barock
The first chapter of this beautifully produced book outlines the history of bird painting in the Netherlands, focusing on Melchior d’Hondecoeter, the “Raphael” of the genre. Especially well [...] Read More
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World
Benjamin Schmidt's new book explores a shift in the way that Europeans thought about non-Europeans that occurred between the ages of European world exploration and the onset of colonialism, when [...] Read More
Frans Hals
It is impossible to imagine our understanding of Frans Hals without Seymour Slive’s monumental contributions. His three-volume study published in 1970 and 1974 remains the most important catalogue [...] Read More
Denijs van Alsloot (vers 1568 ?- 1625/26). Peintre paysagiste au service de la cour des archiducs Albert et Isabelle (Pictura Nova, XV)
In the last decades painters working in Brussels under the two Habsburg archdukes Albert and Isabella have received monographic treatments only sporadically compared to their Antwerp colleagues [...] Read More