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If you thought you were beyond shock. Saboteur in Chief nybooks.com/articles/2018/… via The New York Review of Books

I wax nostalgic about libraries in which I worked in the past and grateful for the beautiful Dutch research libraries in which I still work. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/370-dutch-rese…

Aangifte? Wedstrijd afgelasten! Of zonder ADO fans spelen. #dokwerker

Rembrandt never gave paying portrait sitters the bags under the eyes he admits to in some self-portraits and mercilessly records when painting old studio models. Read all about it at garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/371-ears-and-e…

Als de oorzaak van die twee crashes anders is, is dat nog veel erger!#Nieuwsuur

The beginnings of country-house culture in the Netherlands took place in Maarssen, when two brothers-in-law showed one another up. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/372-between-br…

The loss this week of two highly esteemed colleagues, the art historian Hessel Miedema and the publisher Joop van Coevorden, led me to post a column from 1998 touching on their indispensable edition of Karel van Mander's Lives. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/64-the-bizarre…

17 (!) identifications of the subject of a very early Rembrandt called The Leiden History Painting are lined up to show how they lead to contradictory readings of the emotions of three main figures. A neglected painting of a similar scene thrown in. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/373-putting-ou…

Today the 160,000 predominantly white, superannuated, male members of the Conservative Party are going to tell the other 7½ billion of us who is to lead the country called the mother of democracy. From now she’s the wicked step-mother.

New evidence for the attitude toward the Jews in Rembrandt etchings. An engraving and a poem not yet brought into the discussion shed light on the Hundred-guilder print. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/375-another-th…

A frank comment on Brexit from the man who wrote Article 50. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/376-article-50/

On December 31st I will be commemorating the loss of a befriended and highly respected colleague, Ben Broos. I worked with Ben for 45 years, at our most intensive as his translator, editor and publisher in the 1970s. Please forward to anyone who might have known him.

Read about some remarkable eccentrics in the literature on Rembrandt in a column that also contains a link to a Rembrandt webinar on Tuesday, 19 January. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/391-four-strai…

On the 26th of February 1981 Gary Schwartz published Charlotte Salomon's great "Life? or Theater?" He looks back with a sense of achievement, unfortunately blighted by recent events. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/392-charlotte-…

With cases declining and vaccination drive speeding up, Germany has reopened its iconic museum. Museum Barberini which was shut down on November 2 has been reopened for art lovers. Mohammed Saleh brings you the story.

Schwartzlist 393 is about Dutch painters by whom only one painting is known, and what their work tells us about masters we know only by name. There are lots more of them than artists with oeuvres. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/393-the-transp…

I seem to have visited more museums during the covid lulls of 2020 than in comparable periods when everything was open and easily accessible. By creating rarity, the pandemic may have enhanced the value of museumgoing. Wrote about it at garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/395-museum-mem…

The pandemic has created scarceness where we were used to abundance: museum visits. A report from the front. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/395-museum-mem…

On popular demand, Schwartz returns to the vexed question of Rembrandt’s character. A new article disputes the archival basis for Machiel Bosman’s aggressive defense of Rembrandt as a man driven by love of family to bankrupt himself. garyschwartzarthistorian.nl/396-alibi-for-…

A photo in the Washington Post today reminded me of something.