Jan van Noordt created some of the most flamboyant and expressive paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. David de Witt untangles fact from fiction in this comprehensive study of the life and work of Jan van Noordt, offering a detailed biography based on a thorough review of the documentary evidence.

Jan van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam

Arts & Photography

De Witt, David

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

For many decades the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has been receiving European paintings from the Bader Collection from a wide range of periods and schools, from the German Renaissance to the Italian Rococo. The core of the collection is Dutch and Flemish art, in particular paintings by the Dutch Baroque genius Rembrandt van Rijn and his circle of talented pupils, friends and followers. These works were fully published in the publication of 2008. This new book presents the substantial group of over fifty remarkable paintings from other European Schools, notably Italy, Germany, France and England. A breathtaking early El Greco, a classic Dosso Dossi, an evocative late Luca Giordano, a truly surprising Georg Pencz, as well as a signal masterpiece by the Milanese master Andrea Lanzani highlight the quality and breadth of this part of the collection. Many works make their public debut here, with new findings on authorship, meaning, and other intriguing questions. They are joined by several major recent Netherlandish acquisitions including a late still life by the renowned Willem Kalf. Artists include El Greco, Dosso Dossi, Luca Giordano, Georg Pencz, Andrea Lanzani, Willem Kalf, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack de Jouderville, Jacques-André-Joseph Aved and Jean Baptiste Henri Deshays.

The Bader Collection: European Paintings

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

•2019 marks 350 years since Rembrandt's death. This book accompanies the exhibition at The Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, exploring Rembrandt's network of friends and family Rembrandt seems to have been an artist who took little notice of other people. Yet he had a family, friends and acquaintances who helped him, bought his art, lent him money, challenged him artistically and inspired him. He would never have become such a great artist without his social network. This book explores that network: Rembrandt's early friends, family members ('blood friends'), artist friends, the connoisseurs who supported him and his friends in times of need. As a friend, Rembrandt went his own way. He made little effort to get on with the elite, and preferred to surround himself with people who understood art. He had strong ties with them, as he did with the members of his family. He portrayed them in remarkably informal paintings and prints, works that bring Rembrandt's private world to life.

Rembrandt's Social Network: Family, Friends and Acquaintances

Runia, Epco

W-Books

-Abraham van Dijck developed an alternative to his master Rembrandt's style: exploring inner life with daring experiments in light and handling. This is the first comprehensive monograph of his work In the years around 1651, Rembrandts young charges followed him in the turn of his late style, with its concentration, inner emotion, impasto handling, and restrained dynamism. Around then the young Abraham van Dijck also arrived from Dordrecht to complete his studies. He quickly grasped his master's new direction, but also developed a gentle and vulnerable alternative to it: exploring the evocation of inner life, with daring experiments in light and handling. Together with fellow pupils Nicolaes Maes, Jacobus Leveck and Cornelis Bisschop, he returned to Dordrecht for a brief and fertile period of painting and drawing. Eventually he succumbed to the siren call of Amsterdam once more. This is the first comprehensive monograph of his remarkable achievement in drawing and paintings and his distinctive contribution to the art of this period.

Abraham Van Dijck (1635-1680)

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Jan van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam

The Bader Collection: European Paintings

Rembrandt's Social Network: Family, Friends and Acquaintances

Abraham Van Dijck (1635-1680)