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
Book Reviews
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
Northern Nocturnes: Nightscapes in the Age of Rembrandt
The central motivation behind this exhibition was to place the National Gallery of Ireland's Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Rembrandt in a wider context. One of the great achievements of the show [...] Read More
Lives of Rubens
The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible [...] Read More