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

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

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

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

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

With the groundbreaking recent exhibition and catalogue, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman et al. (2011; reviewed here November 2011, 22-23), study of the [...] Read More