Publication : "Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art".

ZELL Michael, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Amsterdam, Amsterdam university press, 2021, 446 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embr.