Not always Rembrandt

This volume contains 37 essays on 17^th and 18^th -century painting, mainly in the Netherlands and Germany, written by specialists in the field in tribute to Volker Manuth.

Foreword by David de Witt

I. Rembrandt’s Relations: Followers and Friends
Tom van der Molen, A Teacher and His Impact: Govert Flinck and His Pupils
Leonore van Sloten, Ferdinand Bol in de voetsporen van Rembrandt: Twee herontdekte schilderijen
Ilja Veldman, Jan Victors and The Return of Jacob from Mesopotamia
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Arent de Gelder’s Healing of the Sick
David De Witt, Philips Koninck, Rembrandt’s Friend: Two New Paintings

II. Face Spotting and Discerning Visual Strategies
Britta Bode, Anslos Augen: Zur szenischen Einheit von Sprechen und Hören als Bildstrategie
Peter van den Brink, Oh … Those Joys of Country Life ...: A Footnote on a Lost Family Portrait from the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen
Edwin Buijsen, De verscholen zelfportretten van Adriaen van de Venne
Katja Kleinert, Rembrandts Kris: Ein Detail für Eingeweihte
Carla van de Puttelaar, Caught by the Eye: The Discovery of a Portrait of a Young Girl by Jan Jansz. de Stomme
Lilian Ruhe, In een oogopslag: Ongekende (zelf)portretten van Adriaen Brouwer, Godefridus Schalcken, Balthasar Denner en Jacob Samuel Beck
Gero Seelig, Another Calling: Hendrick ter Brugghen Discarding a Composition
Jørgen Wadum, Displaying Vermeer in the Seventeenth Century: A Hypothetical View

III. Imprints and Impressions: Works on Paper
Charles Dumas, Jan Caspar Philips’ Designs for Frontispieces
Patrick Larsen, Een tekening naar Jürgen Ovens’ geschilderde late zelfportret
Norbert Middelkoop, Van den Eeckhouts laatste werk? Een papieren groepsportret
Femke Speelberg, Kunstkammer Pareidolia and Paul van Vianen’s Auricular Inventions
Katlijne Van der Stighelen, “T’stout versoecken van een Maeght”: Anna Roemers Visscher en Pieter Paul Rubens, één gedicht en twee kopergravures
Gregor J.M. Weber, Kein Plagiatsvorwurf beim Jüngsten Gericht
Joyce Zelen, Who Dares to Cut up a Rembrandt?

IV. Due South: The Flemish Connection and Italy
Christopher Brown, A New Mocking of Christ by Anthony van Dyck
Stephanie S. Dickey, Fragments of Evidence for Rembrandt’s Genoese Commission
Liesbeth Helmus, Between Rome and Utrecht: The Homecoming of Gerard van Honthorst
Bram de Klerck, Quis ut Deus: Luca Giordano and the Theme of the Archangel Michael Vanquishing the Devil
Justus Lange, One or Two Paintings? St. Francis of Assisi: New Research on a Painting by the Circle of Rubens
Rudie van Leeuwen, Touched by Painting: St. Dominic from Soriano as a Cult Image

V. Rembrandt in Transit: Bridgeheads Revisited
Lloyd DeWitt, Thomas Cole and Rembrandt
Jeroen Giltaij, Reconsidering the Family Portrait by Carel Fabritius, Burned in 1864, of possibly an Alkmaar Doctor and His Family
Anna C. Koldeweij, Verre familie, directe inspiratie: De portretschilders Gerbrand van den Eeckhout en Bramine Hubrecht
Jos Koldeweij, Rembrandt van Rijn, Lucas van Leyden en Jheronimus Bosch: Drie Keisnijdingen
Christiaan Vogelaar, Rembrandt tussen Leiden en Amsterdam

VI. German Germination and Aftermath
Alexandra Nina Bauer, Zwischen Passion und Prestige: Der Große Kurfürst und Van Dyck
Menno Jonker, “The Costly, Principal and Renowned High German Masters”: Advertising Renaissance Art in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
Almut Pollmer-Schmidt, Immortal Art: Johann Ulrich Mayr, Joachim von Sandrart and the Muses of Augsburg
Christian Tico Seifert, New Evidence for Jan Lievens in Berlin and a Note on Adam Pijnacker in Lenzen (Brandenburg)
Jaap van der Veen, Der erste Besitzer und mutmaßliche Auftraggeber von Jacob Backers Gemälde Venus, Adonis und Amor in Fulda

Jan Six, Celebramus vanitates: Vanitas images by Johan Thopas

Bibliography of Volker Manuth’s Publications