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
Book Reviews
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
Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715
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
David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). A Biography (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XVI)
This book constitutes the most comprehensive study to date of Teniers’s life and work. It reviews and updates the source material, and constructs a new image of Teniers as a painter. Hans Vlieghe’s [...] Read More
Pieter Soutman. Life and Oeuvre. (OCULI. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, vol. 12)
A monograph on the Dutch artist Pieter Claesz. Soutman (c. 1593/1601-1657) has long been one of the desiderata in the history of seventeenth-century northern art since he combined the art of Holland [...] Read More