Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
By Wayne Franits.
Description
The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists―Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou, and others―have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. this comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Golden Age, beginning in the early 1600's and continuing through the opening years of the next century. Wayne Franits, a well-known scholar of Dutch genre painting, offers a wealth of information about these works as well as about seventeenth-century Dutch culture, its predilections, and its prejudices.The author approaches genre paintings from a v...
ISBN(s)
0300143362, 9780300143362
