One side-effect of 2006, the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, is the attention paid to Pieter Lastman. Perhaps Lastman is destined forever to be known as Rembrandt’s teacher, but it is time he [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Anwesende Abwesenheit. Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte von Bildern mit menschenleeren Räumen, Rückenfiguren und Lauschern im holländischen 17. Jahrhundert (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 116)
Over the last five years the depiction of interior scenes has provoked renewed interest among historians of Dutch seventeenth-century art. Willemijn C. Fock, Eric Jan Sluijter and Mariët Westermann [...] Read More
Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800. Vol. 1: Künstler geboren bis 1615
Although the private foundation of public museums is a common phenomenon in North America, it forms the exception in Europe, and the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt is the only prominent [...] Read More
Selected Writings on Dutch Painting. Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer and Others
Having regrettably put off writing this review for far too long, I sat down to read through this book with no idea of how many subtle pleasures awaited me. The project of assembling a selection of [...] Read More
Six Publications on Adam Elsheimer
Rüdiger Klessmann, Im Detail die Welt entdecken: Adam Elsheimer 1578-1610. With contributions by Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Christian Tico Seifert, edited by Michael Maek-Gérard. [Cat. exh. Städelsches [...] Read More
David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting
This small exhibition, installed in one room at Somerset House, was dedicated to David Teniers’s Theatrum Pictorium or “Theatre of Painting”, published in 1660 in Brussels. The show was built around [...] Read More