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Money in the Air
This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections forming the backbone of major American museums today. But what of the dealers, who possessed the expertise in art and recognized the potential of developing a new market model on both sides of the Atlantic? Money in the Air investigates the often-overloo...
Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Van Dyck
The first major examination of Anthony van Dyck's work as a portraitist and an essential resource on this aspect of his illustrious career This landmark volume is a comprehensive survey of the portrait drawings, paintings, and prints of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), one of the most celebrated portraitists of all time. His supremely elegant style and ability to convey a sense of a sitter's inner life made him a favored portraitist among high-ranking figures and royalty across Europe, as well as among his fellow artists and art enthusiasts. Showcasing the full range of Van Dyck's fascinating international career with more than 100 works, this catalogue celebrates the artist's versatility, inve...
Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels
In seventeenth-century Brussels, the careers of painters were shaped not only by their artistic talents but also by the communities to which they belonged. This book explores the intricate relationship between the social structures and artistic production of the 353 painters who became masters in the Brussels Guild of Painters, Goldbeaters, and Stained-Glass Makers between 1599 and 1706. This innovative study combines quantitative digital analysis with detailed qualitative case studies, offering a novel approach to the social history of art. By examining the various communities in which these artists operated, this book provides new insights into how early modern painters — both in Brussels and beyond — created their art, earned a living, and navigated the complexities of urban life. Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels also presents the first overview of the Brussels Baroque, with extensive biographical lists of the city’s master painters.
Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition
The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism known as trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) employs visual tricks that confound the viewer’s perception of reality and fiction, truth and falsehood. This radically new take on Cubism shows how Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris both parodied and paid homage to classic trompe l’oeil themes and motifs. The authors connect Cubist works to trompe l’oeil specialists of earlier centuries by juxtaposing more than one hundred Cubist paintings, drawings, and collages with related compositions by old masters. The informed and engaging texts trace the changing status of trompe l’oeil over the centuries, reveal Braque’s training in artisanal trompe l’oeil techniques as an integral part of his Cubist practice, examine the material used in Gris’s collages, and discuss the previously unstudied trompe l’oeil iconography within Cubist still lifes.
Dutch Classicism in Seventeenth-century Painting
With this illustrated catalogue, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Städelsch Kunstistitut present the other face of the Golden Age - the painters of Dutch classicism. Inspired by the art of classical Antiquity and that of the Italian High Renaissance, they developed an austere and refined style. Their paintings depicting biblical and mythological scenes presented the court, the regents and the intelligentsia in the seventeenth century with an alternative to so-called Dutch Realism. In this publication, Dutch classicism is viewed from all sides.
The Art of Anthonie Palamedes (1602-1673)
This book is the first complete study of the life and work of the 17th-century Dutch painter Anthonie Palamedes (1602-1673). Palamedes was active in Delft, one of the most important cities during the Dutch Golden Age, alongside Vermeer. Unlike his famous compatriot Vermeer, Anthonie Palamedes was a successful painter. He was socially acceptable, was recognized and appreciated by his colleagues, painted hundreds of pictures and achieved financial success that allowed him to live comfortably. Palamedes is therefore the embodiment of the successful painter in the Dutch "Golden Age". The book includes a biography of the painter as well as a systematic and comparative iconographical and stylistic study of his work, with an attached critical oeuvre catalogue.
Goena-goena en slinkse wegen : over de Nederlands-Indische/Indonesische misdaadroman
Nederlands-Indië/Indonesië bood en biedt veel stof voor schrijvers. Maar in de Nederlandse misdaadroman wordt het land weinig als locatie gebruikt, ondanks mysterieuze zaken als goena-goena, stille kracht, de kris. De schrijvers die dit wel deden geven een veelkleurig palet te zien. Van de avonturenromans van Ucee (Ulrich Coldenhoff) via boeken met een politieke boodschap van Ivans (Jakob van Schevichaven) en Minne van der Staal naar de hard-boiled thrillers van Joop van den Broek. En meer recent Tomas Ross en Paul Koetsier. En dan zijn er nog schrijvers als Jan Palet (Anita Rambonnet) en Paul Jörgen. Waar terecht veel aandacht besteed wordt aan 'serieuze' schrijvers als Daum, Louis Couperus, Hella Haasse e.v.a. met hun Indisch werk is de triviale misdaadroman nog nauwelijks systematisch bestudeerd. Dit boekje probeert hier verandering in aan te brengen, want zowel voor liefhebbers van het land als van misdaadliteratuur valt er best nog wel iets moois te ontdekken.
The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen
The first in-depth study of the Utrecht artist to address questions beyond connoisseurship and attribution, this book makes a significant contribution to Ter Brugghen and Northern Caravaggist studies. Focusing on the Dutch master's simultaneous use of Northern archaisms with Caravaggio's motifs and style, Natasha Seaman nuances our understanding of Ter Brugghen's appropriations from the Italian painter. Her analysis centers on four paintings, all depicting New Testament subjects. They include Ter Brugghen's largest and first known signed work (Crowning with Thorns), his most archaizing (the Crucifixion), and the two paintings most directly related to the works of Caravaggio (the Doubting Tho...
De laatste Vermeer
De zaak van de beruchte kunstvervalser Han van Meegeren fascineert nog altijd. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd hij opgepakt omdat hij een schilderij van Johannes Vermeer aan Hermann Goering zou hebben verkocht. In de gevangenis beweerde Van Meegeren dat hij dat doek zelf had geschilderd. Hij had Goering voor een gigantisch bedrag bedrogen en hij was dus geen collaborateur: hij had eigenlijk een verzetsdaad gepleegd. En die valse Vermeer was de enige niet, bekende Van Meegeren: ook de beroemde Emmaüsgangers, in 1937 gekocht door Museum Boijmans, was van zijn hand. Het was een fantastisch verhaal en het maakte het proces-Van Meegeren tot een ware mediasensatie, maar het was van A tot Z gelogen...
