Marieke de Winkel, Fashion and Fancy. Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt's Paintings. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2006. 398 pp, 58 color, 96 [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Publications on Rembrandt
Ton Broos and Augustinus P. Dierick (eds.), About & Around Rembrandt (Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies/ Revue canadienne dʼétudes néerlandaises, XXVIII). Windsor (Ontario), 2007. 242 pp, [...] Read More
Hans Rottenhammer: begehrt – vergessen – neu entdeckt
The organisers of this superb exhibition are to be congratulated. This first monographic show devoted to the German painter and draughtsman Hans Rottenhammer (1564-1625) took place in Lemgo (where [...] Read More
The Later Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
There is no doubt that Christopher White's recently published catalogue of the seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in the collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II fills an important gap in the series [...] Read More
Anthonis Mor. Art and Authority (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 8)
Anthonis Mor (1516/21-1576/78), painter to Philip II since 1554, left the Spanish court for the Netherlands in the autumn of 1561. The circumstances of his departure remain shrouded in speculation. [...] Read More
Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery
In many ways Stewart's book is suggestive and ambitious. Revisiting the subject of her 1986 Columbia dissertation, Stewart deftly inserts her material into a number of significant art historical and [...] Read More