The Age of Rembrandt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Rembrandt write by Roland E. Fleischer. This book was released on 1988-01-01. The Age of Rembrandt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.
Art & Home
Art & Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art & Home write by Mariët Westermann. This book was released on 2001. Art & Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The caress of fabrics, the sheen of metal, the brittle luminosity of glass -- Dutch genre painters of the Golden Age were so skilled at mimicking the appearance of things that their largely imaginary domestic scenes are utterly convincing pictures of life as it was once lived. The contemporary viewer enters this world of make-believe as eagerly as Dorothy stepped into the land of Oz, with a complete trust in the fitness and accuracy of the illusion. Now, four eminent art historians reveal the trick behind this illusion and give us insight into the social reality that animates the deception. We learn why domestic interiors were a favorite subject for seventeenth-century Dutch artists and why buyers snatched up these paintings before their varnish dried. And we come to understand why these images of home and family, the earliest in the history of art, still speak to us three hundred years later in a voice as fresh and powerful as when they first appeared. This is the story of an art that echoed and shaped the ideals of an emerging nation -- a sensitive portrait of the painted fictions that laid the ground for our modern concept of "home" as the compass of our true selves. Book jacket.
Holland's Golden Age in America
Holland's Golden Age in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holland's Golden Age in America write by Esmée Quodbach. This book was released on 2014. Holland's Golden Age in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.
Class Distinctions
Class Distinctions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class Distinctions write by Ronni Baer. This book was released on 2015. Class Distinctions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century was home to one of the greatest flowerings of painting in the history of Western art. Freed from the constraints of royal and church patronage, artists created a rich outpouring of naturalistic portraits, genre scenes and landscapes that circulated through a newly open market to patrons and customers at every level of Dutch society. Their closely observed details of everyday life offer a wealth of information about the possessions, activities and circumstances that distinguished members of social classes, from the nobility to the urban poor. The dazzling array of paintings gathered here - from artists such as Frans Hals, Jan Steen and Gerrit Dou, as well as Rembrandt and Vermeer - illuminated by essays by leading specialists, invite us to explore a vibrant early modern society and its reflection in a golden age of brilliant painting.
Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden Age
Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden Age write by Gerdien Wuestman. This book was released on 2017. Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the time, the art of the seventeenth‐century Dutch Republic was admired and sought after far beyond the country's borders. To this day, works by painters such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer are among the most prized in many museums. The outstanding quality, wholly individual character of the art and the huge output of paintings and prints in this period are unique in history. This book introduces the work of the greatest artists of the Dutch golden age, an era of unparalleled wealth, power and cultural confidence. It presents a vivid and compelling panorama of a place and period, from tranquil landscapes, symbol‐laden still‐lifes, the colorful life of the cities and the characters of the people to maritime power. Beautifully illustrated and designed, and written in an engaging and accessible style, Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age enlightens readers on the artists, the art, and the times. The seventy-eight artworks by some fifty artists are organized in themes: meeting the Dutch; inside and outside the town walls; across the oceans; the home and the inn; Rembrandt, master of light and shade; tales from the past; and arrangements of life and death.
