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"I have not attempted a presentation of Early Netherlandish Painting in its entirety ... but concentrated my efforts on Hubert and Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flémalle and Roger van der Weyden ... Like my previous book on Albrecht Dürer, this study has grown out of a series of public lectures - in this case, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1947-1948"--Preface, v. 1, p. vii.
4) Vermeer
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In recent times, Johannes Vermeer's status as a great artist has been assured and his paintings are more popular today than ever before. Little is known of his life other than he painted very few paintings and that he died penniless. A master of light and color, Vermeer excelled in creating the illusion of reality in his paintings. Most of Vermeer's work follows a similar theme, often featuring a single female figure standing or sitting in a domestic...
5) Rembrandt
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Two eyes peer out of the gloom; they are the eyes of Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt drew, etched and painted his own likeness over a hundred times resulting in a unique record of not only his changing physical appearance, but the development of his artistic career. In his portraiture, Rembrandt was able to render a sense of the interior lives of his subjects. He also painted religious, historical and contemporary scenes, as well as landscapes and animals....
6) Van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh is perhaps the most mythologized artist in the history of art and his tragic life is ingrained in the popular imagination. Active as an artist for only ten years he completed 1250 paintings, before succumbing to mental illness and taking his own life in July of 1890. Van Gogh was a deeply spiritual man and began painting after witnessing the desperate poverty of the agricultural communities of Holland and Belgium. He developed a highly...
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"A landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age. The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity of these works, as this book demonstrates, was achieved in part thanks to a vibrant artistic rivalry among numerous first-rate genre painters working in different cities across the Dutch Republic. They...
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Art in History/History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture considers the potential for a reciprocally illuminating relationship between art history and history in light of recent methodological developments in both fields. The volume opens with contributions from a historian and an art historian; they examine the weaknesses of an art history without a social or economic history and lay the groundwork for the ensuing discussions of...
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