Walter Gibson, Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-520-25954-6. Gerald [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Publications on Gabriel Metsu and Eglon van der Neer
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Pieter Roelofs and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., with contributions by Wayne E. Franits, E. Melanie Gifford, Bianca M. du Mortier, Pieter Roelofs, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Linda [...] Read More
Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age
Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age builds on Jochai Rosen's dissertation "Jacob Duck and the 'Guardroom' Painters: Minor Masters as Inventors in [...] Read More
Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare: Zur holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat's choice of a title for her book echoes that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological examination of the relations between reflection, dialectic and intuition (1964) and [...] Read More
Credo. Meisterwerke der Glaubenskunst
This richly documented catalogue, which was published in three languages, accompanied the exhibition organized in 2010-11 by the 'Forum der Draiflessen Collection' in Mettingen. The Draiflessen [...] Read More
Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620. Visual and Poetic Memory
In his famous letter of 12 March 1638 to Justus Susterman, a painter to the Florentine court, Rubens concluded his long explanation of the iconography of his Horrors of War by noting that he had [...] Read More