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Darling Queen - Dear old Bones
Queen Wilhelmina's correspondence with her English governess Miss Saxton Winter, 1886-1935
2017 || Hardcover || Wilhelmina (koningin der Nederlanden) e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book presents a remarkable collection of letters from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) and her governess, Elizabeth Saxton Winter (1855-1936), an Englishwoman. The earliest letters are those of a child, sent to Miss Winter when she was on holiday in England, but after Wilhelmina's education was finished in 1896 and she had no more need of a governess, she continued to write to Winter weekly. Her long letters cover a wide range of subjects: including her perspective on peop...
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers Illuminated
Art Meets Science
2019 || Hardcover || Ella Hendriks e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.
Vincent van Gogh’s *Sunflowers* are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces – the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) – have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pict...