Dutch Painting (Woa) (World of Art) - Softcover

Fuchs, R.H

 
9780500201671: Dutch Painting (Woa) (World of Art)

Synopsis

Physical description: 216 pages: illustrations (some color), portraits; 22 cm. Contents: Invention and narrative style: the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Virtue explained: genre painting in the seventeenth century -- Classic histories: history painting in the seventeenth century -- Images of pride: types of portraiture -- The world as image: seventeenth-century landscape and still-life -- Subject and style: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Another order: twentieth-century developments. Summary: The book reviews the development of Dutch art from the foundation of Netherlandish realism in the fifteenth century with the Van Eycks, through the elevated style of Renaissance history painting, the language of symbols of the seventeenth century and the work of its masters, on through the eighteenth and nineteenth century realism, right up to Van Gogh's pioneering Expressionism, and the radical simplification of Mondrian, and the present-day art of Dibbets and Brouwn. Subjects: Painting, Dutch. Painting Ca. 1400-1975 Critical studies. Painting, Modern. Painting, Modern Netherlands. Netherlands Holland painting history. Dutch painting. Dutch painting: history Painting Netherlands.

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Dutch art spans the history of Western easel painting from the Middle Ages to the present, and has a psychological development of its own which makes it a fascinating field of study.

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