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Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age: Paintings and People in Historical Perspective
by Derek Phillips, Klaske Muizelaar
Pub. Yale, 2003
Hardback in dustjacket.
ix, 246 pages, illustrated
An exploration of the way in which paintings, such as those by Rembrandt, Vermeer and other Dutch Old Masters, were displayed and comprehended in 17th-century Holland. It offers many insights into life in the Dutch Golden Age as well as ways of interpreting the paintings of this period.
Condition: Very good, bookplate to endpaper.