Book Reviews

Rembrandt 1632. Entstehung einer Marke. Creation of a Brand.

By Justus Lange and Timo Trümper (curators)

Kassel, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, May 8 – August 9, 2026; Gotha, Friedenstein Stifting Gotha, Herzogliches Museum Gotha, September 5 – December 6, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Justus Lange and Timo Trümper.
Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2026. 288 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-3-7319-1569-0.

Review published August 2026

In the last 25 years or so, at least four major exhibitions have focused on Rembrandt's early career. Each of these built upon the collection of the host institution(s), and each took a different [...] Read More

Maarten van Heemskerck. Das Römische Zeichnungsbuch (facsimile edition).

By Tatjana Bartsch and Christien Melzer (eds.)

Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024. 184 pp, 134 color illus. ISBN 978-3-7757-5788-1.
English edition, Maarten van Heemskerck. The Roman Sketchbook. ISBN 978-3-7757-5798-0.*

Review published August 2026

Introduction Few objects are more compelling to the art historian than artist's drawing books. Their particular appeal is the direct access these books provide to private artistic practice: how [...] Read More

The Cultural Work of the Early Modern Dutch Portrait: Amalia van Solms and the Shape of the Self in European Art

By Saskia Beranek

London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 226 pp. 20 color, 64 b&w illus. ISBN 9789048562572.

Review published August 2026

Saskia Beranek has written an important study of the images and image-making of one of the most intriguing figures from seventeenth-century Dutch history, Amalia van Solms, Princess of Orange. Amalia [...] Read More

At Home with Ter Borch: Artist Family in Zwolle

By Marjorie E. Wieseman (curator)

Zwolle, Museum de Fundatie, September 6, 2025 – February 1, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Beatrice von Bormann, Sanne van de Kraats, Gerdien Verschoor, and Marjorie E. Wieseman. Zwolle: Wbooks, 2025. 176 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 9789462587359. Dutch edition: Thuis bij Ter Borch. ISBN 9789462587205.

Review published July 2026

Published in conjunction with the exhibition in Zwolle, this book is devoted to the art of the Ter Borch family, much of which consists of works on paper now housed in the Rijksmuseum since 1887. The [...] Read More

Carel de Moor 1655–1738: His Life and Work. A Catalogue Raisonné

By Pamela Fowler and Piet Bakker

Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2024. 352 pp, ca. 400 color illus. ISBN 978-90-5997-393-0 (hardback).

Review published July 2026

Over the past few decades, publications and exhibitions on Dutch art of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries have slowly but steadily transformed our understanding of this transitional [...] Read More

The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Vol. III (1621-1640)

By Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2025. 2 vols., 555 pp, 194 col. illus. ISBN 978-2-503-59956-4.

Review published July 2026

At the end of last year, the long-awaited third and final volume of the The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens by Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin was published. After all the publications that [...] Read More

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