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Whistler and Holland
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Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rembrandt and the Female Nude
Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt a...
Rembrandt
Explores the life and career of Rembrandt via biographical sketches, anecdotes, descriptions of how life was lived in his time, and explanations of how he created his paintings.
Seeing Beyond the Word
This collection of essays seeks to redefine the discussion of Calvinism's impact on the visual arts through an exploration of Reformed artistic influences in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and America. 200+ illustrations, many in color.
