Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. On Rembrandt, Manet and the second life of art
2. Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting: a reassessment of some current hypotheses
3. Gerrit Dou’s Braamcamp Triptych reconsidered: a sceptical view of its allegorical meaning
4. J.A. Emmens (1924–1971)
5. Art beats Nature and Painting does so best of all: the paragone competition in Duquesnoy, Dou and Schalcken
6. From a limitation to a brand: specialization in the painting of Godefridus Schalcken
7. Could this be it? Rembrandt’s Leiden history painting of 1626 depicts Orestes and Pylades before King Thoas in Tauris
8. The idol in Rembrandt’s 1626 Leiden history painting: an addendum
9. A shifting image with an air of permanence
10. The end of the Golden Age: a matter of taste
11. The beautiful is secret: on the love and history of art
12. The Paintings of Hendrick Goltzius 1558–1617: A Monograph and a Catalogue Raisonné
13. Masters of Light: Dutch painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age (1998)
14. Die Meister-Sammlerin Karoline Luise von Baden (2015)
15. Een Utrechter in Londen: P.C. Wonder (1777–1852) (2016)
16. Two Golden Ages: paintings from the Netherlands and Denmark (2001)
17. One hundred and twenty-five years and an agenda that is still relevant today
18. A jewel tucked away in a corner
19. On Rembrandt’s Portrait of an elderly man, bought by the Mauritshuis
20. Deventer: centenary of the Waag Society
21. A lesson that never ages: the Master of Alkmaar, 1504
22. It’s only when the art leaves that you learn to treasure it
23. Taking advantage of Covid: prioritizing museum collections
24. Fifty years since the first time
25. Seeing, looking and feeling: a word on Rubens and Rembrandt
26. Luminous and consoling: Vincent van Gogh on Carel Fabritius
27. Commissioned writing for the freshmen: P.C. Wonder, The staircase of the London residence of the painter, 1828
28. Nature that never bores
Peter Hecht: Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Picture credits