Dutch Painting 1600–1800 (Paper) (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series) - Softcover

Slive, Seymour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300074514 ISBN 13: 9780300074512

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This lavishly illustrated book is an authoritative and perceptive study of Dutch painting from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Seymour Slive focuses on the major artists of the period, analyzing works by Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jacob van Ruisdael, and others. He discusses the kinds of painting that became Dutch specialties-portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, Italianate pictures, architectural painting, and still lifes-as well as traditional biblical and historical subjects painted by artists of the period. He also examines patronage and trends of art theory, criticism, and collecting. This book replaces the classic section on painting in Dutch Art and Architecture: 1600-1800, jointly written by Slive and Jakob Rosenberg in the 1960s. Slive has completely rewritten and expanded the original text, taking into account his own and other recent scholarship on Dutch painting as well as new archival finds, technical analyses of paintings made by conservators and scientists, and significant pictures that have been discovered. The number of illustrations has doubled, and the result is a book that will immediately establish itself as the new standard work on this great period of painting.

About this title

Synopsis:

This text explores the aspects of a truly creative period in Dutch art when sureness of instinct and quality of performance held a safe balance. The work of the great masters and their impact on others are analyzed and set in the context of a period of re-establishment in many areas of life.

About the Author:

Seymour Slive is Gleason Professor of Fine Arts emeritus at Harvard University. He is a former director of the Fogg Art Museum and the founding director of the Sackler Museum, both at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0300074514
• ISBN 13: 9780300074512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388