Rembrandt research after the age of connoisseurship
An extended critique of the Rembrandt Research Project and of connoisseurship in general. Published in the last issue of the short-lived journal Annals of Scholarship. The issue is dated 1993, but the...
View ArticleLe musée documentaire
“Le musée documentaire: reflections on a database of works mentioned in art treatises and town descriptions before 1800,” Journal of Information Science 15 (1989), pp. 41-47. Originally published in...
View ArticleDigital imagery and user-defined art
“Digital imagery and user-defined art,” The Art Bulletin 79 (June 1997), pp. 206-08 The complete section of The Art Bulletin in which the article by Gary Schwartz appears on pp. 206-08 is dedicated to...
View Article314 @RembrandtFollowers
The terms Rembrandt school, Rembrandt workshop and Pre-Rembrandtist are taken for granted too unquestioningly. In fact, they have created immense confusion. Anticipating the second conference of...
View ArticleHow Vermeer and his generation stole the thunder of the Golden Age
From the perspective of the year 1650, the past and future of Dutch seventeenth-century painting look radically different from each other. The first half of the century was dominated by participants in...
View ArticleDigital imagery and user-defined art
In the Art Bulletin issue of June 1997, a number of scholars were asked to put into writing their thoughts on “Digital culture and the practices of art and art history.” My contribution predicts that...
View Article374 Heemskerck-bashing, late and early
Art historians seldom let their personal predilections and aversions show through in their writing. An exception is the connoisseurship on Maerten van Heemskerck, one of the giants of sixteenth-century...
View Article377 Three discoveries by Jan de Hond of which I am envious*
My research paths have crossed those of Jan de Hond in various ways for twenty years now. Again and again, he has beaten me to the punch in putting his finger on vital items. A tribute to a gifted...
View Article379 Whitewashing Rembrandt, part 1
This is a two-part series about archive researchers, one in 1852 and one in 2019, who were incapable of accepting that Rembrandt was manipulative, no more trustworthy than he had to be, tricky with...
View Article380 Whitewashing Rembrandt, part 2
This is a two-part series about archive researchers incapable of accepting that Rembrandt was manipulative, no more trustworthy than he had to be, tricky with money, capable of great cruelty, and about...
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