This volume contains 37 essays on 17th and 18th -century painting, mainly in the Netherlands and Germany, written by specialists in the field in tribute to Volker Manuth. TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 H ren 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 f r 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 J rgen 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 J rgen 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, n gedicht en twee kopergravures Gregor J.M. Weber, Kein Plagiatsvorwurf beim J ngsten 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 Gro e Kurf rst 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 mutma liche Auftraggeber von Jacob Backers Gem lde Venus, Adonis und Amor in Fulda Jan Six, Celebramus vanitates: Vanitas images by Johan Thopas Bibliography of Volker Manuth?s Publications