Book Reviews

Fantastische Welten. Albrecht Altdorfer und das Expressive in der Kunst um 1500

By Stefan Roller and Jochen Sander

Cat. exh. Städel Museum and Liebighaus, Frankfurt, November 5, 2014 – February 8, 2015; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 17 – June 14, 2015; in conjunction with the University of Leipzig. Munich: Hirmer 2014. 288 pp, 255 color illus. ISBN 978-3-777-42266-4

Review published April 2016

I always thought that the term "expressive" was a modernist or twentieth-century concept, in which the depiction of figure types and formal elements conjured up a peculiar state of mind or conveyed [...] Read More

Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)

By Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North, eds.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014. 348 pp, 63 color plates, 50 b&w illus, tables, graphs, and maps. ISBN: 978-9-0896-4569-2

Review published April 2016

This anthology, the product of a group effort sponsored by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, explores the role of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as an agent of cultural interaction [...] Read More

The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age: The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art Market in St. Petersburg, 1860-1910 (Oud Holland Book Series, 1)

By Irina Sokolova

Leiden: Brill, 2015. 448 pp, 323 color & b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-04-29241-3

Translation with some revisions of Kartinnaya galereya P.P.Semenova-Tyan-Shanskogo i gollandskaya zhivopis' na antikvarnom rynke Peterburga, St. Petersburg, 2009. Translator: Catherine Phillips.

Review published April 2016

In this fascinating book Irina Sokolova, Curator of Dutch Paintings at the Hermitage, takes the remarkable figure of Pyotr Semenov (1827-1914), the creator of the finest private collection of Dutch [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Book Reviews