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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.