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
Book Reviews
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
Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community
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
Two Publications on Rubens
Rubens (Museo Nacional del Prado. Guías de la Colección), Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2010. 61 pp, 91 color illus. ISBN 978-84-84 802-11-2. Rubens. The Spectacle of Life. In English, Spanish [...] Read More
Room for Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
Room for Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp / Kamers vol kunst in 17e-eeuws Antwerpen was, to my knowledge, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on gallery paintings, a subject restricted to [...] Read More