A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718
Illustrated with more than 100 color images, this book—now back in print—examines the extraordinary artistic culture of the prosperous and powerful seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Mariët Westermann analyzes the choices of artists including Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, and others, and...
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Illustrated with more than 100 color images, this book—now back in print—examines the extraordinary artistic culture of the prosperous and powerful seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Mariët Westermann analyzes the choices of artists including Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, and others, and examines the stories their pictures tell about the nation, its people, and its past.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300107234 (0300107234)
Publish date: March 8th 2005
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
This is a nice little book - with beautiful prints and full of insights. I have to warn though, that the author does show a tendency, especially as the book proceeds - a tendency that is widespread in the Humanities - to confuse metaphor with analysis, and also to confuse the subject of analysis (t...
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