In recent years there has been a great upsurge of interest in the marketing of Netherlandish art. A critical resource for these studies is documentary information, especially that provided by [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
In his Nova Reperta (c. 1590-1693), a visual repertory of the modern age’s inventions, Jan van der Straet used the same pictorial strategies to present innovations in alchemy, medicine and painterly [...] Read More
Conrad Laib: Ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, 8)
Antje-Fee Köllermann's book on Conrad Laib is a magisterial study of his signed paintings and various other works that have been attributed to the artist over the centuries. While this study relies [...] Read More
Der Meister E.S. Ein Kapitel europäischer Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts
Despite several important monographic exhibitions, notably Alan Shestack's five-hundredth anniversary exhibition of the artist's death (Philadelphia, 1967) and Holm Bevers's one-man show (Munich, [...] Read More
Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th-Century Holland
This slim volume, which explores the work of four Haarlem artists, the history painter, architect and theoretician, Salomon de Bray, and his three sons, Jan, Joseph and Dirk, is a unique and quite [...] Read More
Two Publications on Jacob van Ruisdael and Philips Wouwerman
Quentin Buvelot, Jacob van Ruisdael Paints Bentheim. Cat. exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague, February 26 – May 31, 2009. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. 104 pp, 60 color, 36 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8598-7. [...] Read More