Dimensions
225 x 305 x 10mm
The seventeenth century was the Golden Age of Dutch painting, during which political independence and increasing prosperity created new patrons of the arts among merchants and statesmen. Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer, and a host of lesser-known talents, produced a dazzling variety of work, from intimate portraits to virtuoso still lifes, dramatic seascapes to coolly observed domestic interiors. This survey of the period presents a careful selection of paintings that marvellously evoke the spirit of a great age of creativity.
Christopher Brown is Chief Curator at the National Gallery, London, where he has curated the collection of Dutch and Flemish art since 1971. This revised and expanded edition of his text is now published in an attractive new format.
Includes 83 illustrations, 48 in colour.
