After long domination of early Netherlandish art by the study of paintings, recent decades have inspired interest in another major innovation of the era, the medium of prints. Around midcentury in [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Opacity. Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic
In the Netherlands, the prosperous economic and cultural heights of the seventeenth century used to be called the “Golden Century” (Gouden Eeuw). But as if a veil has been lifted, recent revisionist [...] Read More
The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 79)
This edited volume, according to its introduction, purports to reevaluate and reframe the study of global Netherlandish art, at a moment when North Americans and Europeans continue to grapple with the [...] Read More
Vermeer’s Love Letters
Published in conjunction with the special focus exhibition marking the long-awaited reopening of the Frick Collection, Robert Fucci’s Vermeer’s Love Letters reflects the aims of the show it [...] Read More
Michaelina Wautier, Malerin
Michaelina Wautier, Malerin presented some true delights for the specialist visitor familiar with the oeuvre of an artist little known before the groundbreaking Antwerp exhibition of her work in 2018. [...] Read More
The Little Street: The Neighborhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Culture
Vermeer’s so-called “Little Street”, which gives this striking book its name and graces its cover, depicts fragments of two housefronts linked by adjoining courtyards. Rooftops cluster in the [...] Read More