To review a pictorial handbook is not easy. This volume provides the equivalent of what P.J.J. van Thiel and the Rijksmuseum produced a generation ago, All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting
Bret Rothstein's fascinating new book is an exercise in sophisticated visual engagement. His basic premise is that certain early Netherlandish painters intellectually conceived and beautifully crafted [...] Read More
The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Michel Sittow ( Me fecit , 2)
In her monograph on Queen Isabel's Retablo , likely never completed and hence never assembled, Chiyo Ishikawa meticulously and convincingly examines that work of private devotion, commissioned in 1496 [...] Read More
Rembrandt: Portraits in Print (Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 9)
Rembrandt's last portrait print came about because, on 22 December 1664, the artist's son, Titus, who lived with his father in Amsterdam, happened to be walking down the street in Leiden when he was [...] Read More
Four Focussed Studies on Rembrandt Drawings
Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Rembrandt auf Papier. Werk und Wirkung. Rembrandt and his Followers. Drawings from Munich . With an essay by Peter Schatborn. [Cat. exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, December 5, 2001 [...] Read More
De verzameling Hofstede de Groot: Van Cuyp tot Rembrandt
The first Dutch university-educated art historian, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), grew up in the North Netherlandish towns of Kampen and Groningen and, because of poor health, at spas in [...] Read More