Painting in the Netherlands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries offers a compelling visual record of the tastes and values of a prosperous society mindful of its obligation to personal and public standards. This richly illustrated volume examines twenty-six paintings by master artists from this Golden Age of Dutch art and features ...
In this study, Vermeer scholars examine the life and works of this 17th-century Dutch master. It analyzes his evolution from a painter of religious and mythological images to an artist who explored the psychological nuances of human endeavour.
Henri Matisse, one of the pioneering masters of twentieth-century art, was an extremely versatile and productive artist. Throughout his long career from the 1830s to his death in 1954, his art was nourished by a variety of movements: Neoclassicism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. He was an outstanding draftsman and sculptor, but ...
Aelbert Cuyp was one of the foremost Dutch painters and draughtsmen of the 17th century. His prolific artistic career, in which he produced idyllic views of the Dutch countryside, spanned the years between 1640 and 1665, the Golden Age of Dutch painting. At the core of this book and the exhibition it accompanies are 45 of Cuyp's most distinguished ...
Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his ...
The Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681) was a slightly older contemporary of Johannes Vermeer. Ter Borch's beautiful and evocative paintings were not only varied in subject but also unparalleled among his peers in capturing the elegance and grace of wealthy burghers, the shimmering surface of satin, the undulating rhythms of translucent ...
This study examines the creative process and technical means by which the 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer achieved his pictorial effects. Using the results of X-rays, pigment analysis and infrared reflectography, some of the secrets of Vermeer's artistry are revealed.
Examining the full repertoire of the Dutch painter Jan Steen, including portraits and self-portraits, religious and mythological scenes, and witty narratives, this work reassesses Steen within the context of 17th-century Netherlandish artistic, literary and cultural movements. The book serves as the catalogue for an exhibition of the works of Jan ...
One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life - when he no longer enjoyed a ready market for his works and may have turned to his deep religious convictions ...
Gerrit Dou, an early pupil of Rembrandt, was one of the most highly esteemed Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, celebrated for the extraordinarily sensitive images he created with his fine and delicate technique. This beautiful book assembles and discusses thirty-five of his finest paintings. Founder of the Leiden school of fijnschilders, ...
This work brings examines the characteristics of 17th-century Dutch art by bringing together some of the finest works from the period, including five masterpieces by Johannes Vermeer. The paintings and scholarly essays that accompany them offer glimpses into the reality of Dutch life, particularly as it unfolded in the city of Delft during the ...
Trompe l'oeil (French for "fool or deceive the eye"), is a genre dating back to antiquity that has fascinated both painters and viewers from the Renaissance to the present day. Both witty and serious, it describes paintings that imitate natural appearances so convincingly that viewers momentarily mistake the objects for the real thing. The moment ...
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Anthony van Dyck (Exhibition). (1990 : National Gallery of Art), Arthur K. Wheelock, Susan J. Barnes, Julius S. Held, Christopher Brown, National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery's collection of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings, although numbering fewer than sixty works, is exceptional in quality. At its core are major examples by the two greatest masters of the period, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, artists whose renown extended to Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and England. The large ...
Provides a comprehensive study of Vermeer's life and work, presents commentaries on his painting techniques, and examines each one of the Dutch artist's authenticated paintings.
This catalogue of the Gallery's collection by Dutch masters of the Golden Age of Dutch art features works by Cuyp, De Hooch, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, and Vermeer, The twenty-three paintings by Rembrandt and his school are elucidated by an essay on the question of attribution.
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