Rococo remains an art historical stepchild, the more so for Bavarian Rococo. Seldom taught even in survey classes, let alone in stand-alone courses, its richly decorated surfaces may fascinate, but [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
This exquisite volume is as enticing as its title implies, exploring much more than the works which were on view in the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The additional paintings provide a [...] Read More
Bartholomeus van der Helst (ca. 1613-1670). Een studie naar zijn leven en werk
When Joshua Reynolds visited Amsterdam he admired a famous group portrait of the city’s Civic Guards: “the first picture ... in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect [...] Read More
Herman van Swanevelt (um 1603-1655): Gemälde und Zeichnungen (Studien zur interna-tionalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 77)
Anne Charlotte Steland’s monograph and catalogue raisonné of the Dutch Italianate painter and draughtsman Herman van Swanevelt’s large oeuvre of paintings and drawings is the impressive result of [...] Read More
The Eye of the Connoisseur: Authenticating Paintings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries (Amsterdam Studies in Dutch Golden Age)
Connoisseurship is a methodology that continues to befuddle and, depending on opinions, to infuriate parties involved – art dealers, collectors, curators, and researchers. Representing an inexact [...] Read More
Picturing the Scientific Revolution
As research over the last decade has made abundantly clear, the relation between ‘art’ and ‘science’ in early modern Europe encompassed much more than the invention of perspective or the use of the [...] Read More