If we consult received wisdom (I used Giulia Bartrum's reliable survey, German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550, 1995), we find several accepted facts about Georg Pencz (vital statistics given, c. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Fantastische Welten. Albrecht Altdorfer und das Expressive in der Kunst um 1500
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)
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)
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
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
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