This collection of 14 essays by foremost German scholars represents an interdisciplinary approach to church history and the function of imagery within it. It includes a substantial, posthumously [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Publications on Rembrandt Drawings
Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 260 pp, 197 color, 46 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-89236-976-8. Holm Bevers, Lee Hendrix, William W. Robinson, Peter [...] Read More
The Image of the Black in Western Art III. 1. From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
"Much awaited" declares the jacket copy on this handsome book, Part 1 of the missing link in the great series of a generation ago, The Image of the Black in Western Art, begun under the auspices of [...] Read More
Clandestine Splendor. Paintings for the Catholic Church in the Dutch Republic
Thanks to paintings by Emmanuel de Witte and Pieter Saenredam, it is easy to visualize the interior of a Reformed church in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic: it is a soaring, creamy space, [...] Read More
At Home in the Golden Age. Masterpieces from the SØR Rusche Collection
“Von den Kleinsten, das Beste” (“The best of the smallest”), this self-proclaimed motto of the collecting strategy of Egon Rusche (1934-1996) is a fine characterization of the SØR Rusche Collection as [...] Read More
Tronie und Porträt in der niederlän-dischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts
The ‘tronie’ (meaning ‘head’, ‘face’ or ‘facial expression’ in Dutch) entered art historical discourse in the1980s and in recent years has garnered increasing interest. Nevertheless, it remains [...] Read More