Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer - Hardcover

Desmond Shawe-Taylor; Quentin Buvelot

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9781909741195: Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer

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ISBN 10: 1909741191 ISBN 13: 9781909741195

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust, 2015

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The charm and fascination of Dutch genre paintings of the seventeenth century is the way that they capture everyday people doing everyday things. With their harmonious, light-filled interiors, these meticulously painted glimpses of lives behind closed doors provide us with an extraordinary insight into their subjects and the period. Drawing on the rich holdings of Dutch masterpieces from the Royal Collection this book analyses these jewel-like scenes and puts the paintings into their historical context, to unravel the hidden narratives, the morals and meanings in these vignettes of everyday life.

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The ordinary made extraordinary. --Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times

Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer displays some of the triumphs of Dutch and Flemish art in the Royal Collection. There are the usual suspects here: Rembrandt, Lely, van de Velde, Willaerts, Teniers, Dou, Vermeer, de Hooch and Steen. Yet this is not simply a show of treasures; it reveals how the value of those treasures has altered over time in relationship to changing tastes and politics. --Katy Barrett, Apollo

This is a delightful, fascinating, intriguing, uplifting, enlightening, exhilarating, moving, instructive, erotic compilation, which reflects on the human condition in all it's most crucial aspects sex, love, death, food, drink, art, the transience of life and of its even more ephemeral pleasures, and the ultimate meaning of existence. What's more it conveys these eternal themes through paintings that are never les than masterly in execution and in some cases notable but not exclusive in the single Vermeer that justifies that title are among the most beautiful painting that have ever been made [...] The catalogue is an exemplary publication. Unusually for these days it provides a detailed account of every painting, richly illustrated. --Simon Wilson, RA Magazine

About the Author:

Desmond Shawe-Tayloris Surveyor of The Queen s Pictures, Royal Collection Trust. He is the author of several books, including Dutch Landscapes, also published by Royal Collection Trust. Quentin Buvelot is Senior Curator at the Mauritshuis. His recent books include Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt."

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