Veille - Publication : Henk van Nierop « The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 » (Amsterdam University Press, septembre 2018)

Henk van Nierop, The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 | Amsterdam University Press, 2018 Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and king William III. This study, the first book-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accus..