"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

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

“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

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

Already in 1994, Joanna Woodall in her Portraiture Facing the Subjectannounced that Ann Jensen Adams’s forthcoming study of Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture assumes the distinction between public [...] Read More