Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the coloni

This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.

In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the

Is it possible to talk about Dutch art after 1680 outside the prevailing critical framework of the "age of decline"? Although an increasing number of studies ar

Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.