When we try to understand modern art, we can not discount the prevailing historic events. In this book fascinating links are shown between photography and paintings, between space travel and utopian art projects.

Discover the Modern

Arts & Photography

Tempel, Benno

History & Criticism

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'Troy. City, Homer and Turkey' presents the latest insights and discoveries relating to both the historical and the legendary Troy.

Troy: City, Homer and Turkey

History

Uslu, Günay

Serifoglu, Ömer Faruk

Beek, René van

Eijnde, Floris van den

Kelder, Jorrit

Wijngaarden, Gert Jan van

Ancient Civilizations

Presents this monumental synagogue, unique in Europe, and a shining example for Jewish communities all over the world.

The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

Architecture

This unique edition shows highlights from one of the world's foremost private collections of Hebrew manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Swiss collector Ren Braginsky.

A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books

Reference

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the years between the two World Wars the young medium of photography had its first international movement: Pictorialism. Its central aspiration was to make photography into a form of art; the photographers so

In Atmosferisch licht / In Atmospheric Light: Picturalisme in de Nederlandse fotografied 1890-1925 / Pictorialism in Dutch Photography 1890-1925 (German and English Edition)

Boonstra, Janrense

Photography & Video

Beautifully illustrates the monumental stained glass window in the Saint Bavo church in Haarlem.

Etsen Met Licht / Etching with Light: Een Nieuw Raam Voor de Sint Bavo / A New Stained-Glass Windows for St. Bavo (Dutch and English Edition)

De Jong, Erik A.

van der Kuijl, Aart

Religious

This catalogue of Dutch paintings from the collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo presents some of the finiest paintings from the Golden Age.

Made in Holland: Highlights from the Collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie De Mol van Otterloo

Buvelot, Quentin

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Jan Steen is famous for his pictoral puns. His humorous paintings of dissolute households, merrymaking peasants outside inns, quacks at village fairs, and lovesick maidens tended by sham doctors are known the world over. Steen was unsurpassed in his ability to poke fun at every conceivable human weakness and vice. His narrative scenes make us laugh, but also teach us lessons. In addition, his large and varied oeuvre contains important history paintings. Steen was both a true storyteller and a gifted painter, whose favourite subject was everyday life.The Mauritshuis owns a sizeable collection of paintings by Jan Steen, including such famous works as The Oyster Eater, The Poultry Yard and As the Old Sing, So Twitter the Young. This book illuminates the beautiful collection of Jan Steens in the Mauritshuis, and also offers a brief overview of the art of this popular master.

Jan Steen in the Mauritshuis

Suchtelen, Ariane Van

Individual Artists

This study aims at reconstructing the historical viewership of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, using the painting itself as a major source of information.

Hieronymus Bosch: The Land of Unlikeness (Studies in Netherlandis Art and Cultural History)

Falkenburg, Reindert

Believed to be his last painting, Caravaggio's John the Baptist Reclining is barely known by comparison to his other pieces. This is due to disputes that arose after Caravaggio's death regarding the attribution of the piece as a work of the great master. However, due not only to the style and subject of the piece, but also facts and correspondence that add up from around the time of his death, it has become universally accepted that the piece is an original Caravaggio. In this book, for the first time the painting is set against Caravaggio's other masterpieces. Prominent art experts and critics reveal the adventurous circumstances under which this painting has travelled all over the world during the past 400 years. The essays provide a thoroughly in-depth examination of the piece, covering biographical notes on the painter, evidence for the painting's authenticity and technical analysis based on first-hand observation of the painting itself.

The Last Caravaggio

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