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NEW PUBLICATIONS - ANNAMÁRIA GOSZTOLA: István Németh, Deceptive Mirrors of Life. Dutch Genre Painting in the Age of Rembrandt
ing the genre of court portrait. Gonzales' pictures are characteristic examples of how painting styles adapted to commissions, since the same master's altar painting, dated 1621, Saint John the Baptist, an older aquisition of the museum, is entirely different with its tenebroso style in the vein of Caravaggio. Still-life painting, which flourished in Sevilla in the 1630s, is represented by another newly aquired canvas: one by Francisco Barranco. Perhaps the most important new Spanish aquisition is Saint Francis of Assisi in Penitence, a work by Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, previously attributed to Zurbarán. The publication includes the new research findings of the author, Eva Nyerges, such as her recent attribution of Portrait of a Man to José Antolínez, as a result of which the painting has been moved from the French to the Spanish school, as w r ell as the only sketch in the collection, the Brazen Serpent, now attributed to Escalante, also a Madrid master. This work had previously been attributed to Velázquez and Van Dyck at the time of its purchase in 1822 and in the 1920s, respectively. Importantly, the composition by Escalante is only known from this sketch. Four paintings entitled Seasons were also published for the first time in this volume. They can be dated to around the 1640s and were converted into a folding screen in the late 18 th century by adding pedestals and the insciptions of the months to them. The English language publication has a new and impressive appearance designed by Farkas Pongrácz. The high quality printing was done by Color Plus and Mester Printing House. Editorial board ISTVÁN NÉMETH. AZ ÉLET CSALFA TÜKREI. HOLLAND ELETKE P F ESTÉSZET REMBRANDT KORÁBAN / DECEPTIVE MIRRORS OF LIFE. DUTCH GENRE PAINTING IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT. TYPOTFX PUBLISHING. BUDAPEST 2008. HUNGARIAN TEXT, 176 PP., 27 COL. AND 33 B&VV ILLS., ISBN 978 963 9664 708. ISSN 1787-3444 The book entitled Deceptive Mirrors of Life. Dutch Genre Painting in the Age of Rembrandt written by István Németh of the museum of Fine Arts, a reputed Hungarian researcher into seventeenth-century Dutch painting, was published in the Picture Philosophies series of Typotex Publishing Co. in 2008.' Remaining loyal to his original concept and following in the wake of Dutch genre paintings, the author teaches and entertains his readers at the same time. Using a succulent language, he proves that the works of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painters
