Dutch Golden Age Painting

This engaging history by historian Timothy Brook tells about the beginnings of modern globalization and expropriation in the seventeenth-century by examining the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. In Vermeer's landscapes and paintings of domestic life, Brook finds evidence of advances in shipbuilding and navigational technology, national pride in conquest and colonization, and accelerations in world trade. This book offers not only a helpful introduction to some of Vermeer's paintings but also a history of the seventeenth-century Dutch world and its global impact.

This brief memoir by acclaimed poet and prose stylist Mark Doty examines our human attachment to objects, considering their transience and their role in preserving memory. To explore these concepts, Doty reflects both on important objects in his own life and on the Dutch still life tradition, which frequently deals with the themes of transience and memory. The book offers an excellent introduction to the themes and tensions present in the still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age.

This book by former St. John's professor and current popular writer Laura J. Snyder offers a dual biography of the painter Johannes Vermeer and the early microbiologist and microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Vermeer and van Leeuwenhoek were contemporaries living within walking distance of each other in the Dutch town of Delft, and Snyder's book brings to life the world in which they lived. Snyder shows how both figures--artist and scientist--were part of a revolution in seeing and observation that shaped how we see today. This book offers a good introduction to the historical context out of which Dutch Golden Age painting emerged.

This important study contrasts the art of the Dutch Golden Age with the art of the Italian Renaissance. It shows that while the art of the Italian Renaissance was primarily symbolic and focused on visual representations of written material, the art of the Dutch Golden Age emerged from a more visually focused culture interested in realistic depiction.

This classic book about the Dutch Golden Age, its artists, and its painters offers an expansive, wide-ranging overview of the period that discusses its artists, its genres, its common subjects and themes, and the distinctive schools of painting that emerged in different Dutch cities. It includes over 1000 images, 74 of which are in color.

This history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands goes beyond art history, offering a wide-ranging history of the politics, economics, psychology, and culture of the Dutch Golden Age. As an art historian, though, acclaimed writer Simon Schama's observations about the period are frequently grounded in examinations of its art. The book therefore offers both a survey of the historical context of the Dutch Golden Age and an introduction to the period's art.

This introduction to the painting of the Dutch Golden Age is a part of the Yale University Press Pelican History of Art series. The book offers an overview of the most significant artists of the period, explanations of the principal genres of the period, and descriptions of art theory and criticism in the period.

This classic introduction to Dutch Golden Age painting introduces the period's art by putting it in its historical, political, and social context. It covers the major artists and patrons of the era as well as its principal techniques and themes. The book includes over 100 color illustrations.