Book Reviews

Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape

By Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, eds.

Exh. Cat. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, May 21 – August 14, 2022. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums; New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 2022. 246 pp, 138 col. & b&w illus. ISBN: 9780300263824.

Review published February 2023

Between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth century, Dutch artists produced a staggering number of landscape drawings. This richly illustrated catalogue, published in the wake of an exhibition at [...] Read More

Rarities of these Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic

By Claudia Swan

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2021. 336 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 9780691207964.

Review published January 2023

In her methodologically capacious new book, Claudia Swan attempts to show how materials from around the globe amassed in the early modern Netherlands illuminate the formation and development of the [...] Read More

Giusto di Gand e la Comunione del Duca d’Urbino

By Francesca Bottacin, with contributions by Livia Depuyt-Elbaum, Andrea Bernardini, Gianluca Poldi, and Maria Letizia Amadori

Padua: CLEUP, 2021. 296 pp, 179 color illus. ISBN 978-88-5495-364-2.

Review published January 2023

This welcome book by an established scholar of artistic relations between Urbino and the Netherlands is the first monograph on Justus of Ghent since Jacques Lavalleye’s of 1936. Since then, many [...] Read More

Het Grote Rembrandt Boek

By Jeroen Giltaij

Zwolle: W Books, 2022. 496 pp, 700 color illus. ISBN 9789462584990.*

Review published December 2022

Het Grote Rembrandt Boek is a catalogue of Rembrandt’s paintings. Its author, Jeroen Giltaij, is a well-respected scholar of Dutch art who for many years was the Curator of Paintings at the Museum [...] Read More

Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth: Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350-1650

By Anna Koopstra, Christine Seidel, and Joshua P. Waterman, eds.

London: Harvey Miller Publishers and Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022. 346 pp, 250 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-75-1.

Review published December 2022

This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More

The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey (Corpus Vitrearum, Great Britain, 7)

By Isabelle Lecocq and Yvette Vanden Bemden, with Keith Barley, Alison Gilchrist, Marie Groll, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, John McNeill, and Joseph Spooner

Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2021. 618 pp, approx. 650 color illus. ISBN 9780197267189.

Review published December 2022

During the sixteenth century, a wealth of historiated stained glass filled the interiors of religious and secular buildings in the Netherlands, yet only a fraction of these luminous panes remains in [...] Read More

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