ABSTRACT

This new edition of an established survey of the Golden Age of Dutch painting has been revised, corrected, and updated in the text, notes, and bibliography as a result of new scholarship. The author has written a new preface to this edition. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Ruisdael, Cuyp, de Witte, van Goyen, van de Velde, Hobbema, Fabritius, de Hooch, and Saenrendam are some of the painters included and discussed.

chapter 1|7 pages

The Birth of a Nation

chapter 2|20 pages

Dutch Culture and Art

chapter 3|16 pages

Utrecht: From Mannerism to Caravaggism

chapter 4|23 pages

Haarlem: Strides Toward Naturalism

chapter 5|22 pages

Frans Hals and the Portrait Tradition

chapter 6|66 pages

Rembrandt

chapter 7|15 pages

The Rembrandt School

chapter 8|19 pages

Scenes of Social Life

chapter 9|15 pages

Still-Life

chapter 10|36 pages

Landscape and Seascape

chapter 12|41 pages

Vermeer and the Delft School