On the cover of Sponsors of the Past, the proceedings of a symposium on Flemish patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries held in Leuven in 2001, we see a detail of a Triumph of Bacchus. On [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Forgery, Replica, Fiction. Temporalities of German Renaissance Art
Meticulously researched and insightfully argued, Christopher Wood's Forgery, Replica, Fiction. Temporalities of German Renaissance Artresponds to the decades-old debate over how we define what is [...] Read More
Making and Marketing: Studies of the Painting Process in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Workshops
Few individuals have made as many, or as significant, contributions to the field of “technical art history” than Molly Faries. Through her solo research studies, her collaborative partnerships with [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Mother: Myth and Reality
The exhibition “Rembrandt’s Mother: Myth and Reality” was part of the worldwide celebration of Rembrandt’s 400th birthday. In that show, and in the catalogue published under the same title, primary [...] Read More
Uylenburgh & Son: Art and Commerce from Rembrandt to de Lairesse 1625-1675
The constant flow of publications on art and commerce in the Netherlands shows no sign of abating. Indeed, it may be a sign of our times that scholarly preoccupation with the finances, market, and [...] Read More
The Young Gentry at Play; Northern Netherlandish Scenes of Merry Companies 1610-1645
In this book, a translation of his 2002 Leiden dissertation, Elmer Kolfin has written the first comprehensive study to date on the merry company in Dutch art during the first half of the seventeenth [...] Read More