Sander Pinkse
Book review – De l’expertise artistique à la vulgarisation au siècle des Lumières: Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Jean-Baptiste Descamps was born in 1715 in Dunkerque in the far north of France. His native tongue was Flemish, and it is abundantly clear from the publications that he wrote in French that he regarded himself as a Fleming.
Book review – Vermeer and the masters of genre painting
The exhibition of Dutch genre painting from the third quarter of the seventeenth century, which opened in February 2017 and will have reached its third and final venue in the National Gallery of Art in Washington by the time this review appears, is certainly one of the most ambitious ever made.