Dutch Painting (World of Art)

This authoritative book in the World of Art series offers a new perspective on the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, authored by one of the world's foremost experts on Dutch art.

Renowned art historian Gary Schwartz offers a fresh and contemporary perspective on seventeenth-century Dutch painting, one of the most important schools of European art. This lively and authoritative guide brings together a range of notable paintings from leading museum collections to explore the work of well-known masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Judith Leyster and Johannes Vermeer, as well as artists that the reader may be encountering for the first time, such as Adriaen van de Velde and Gesina ter Borch.

Across nine chapters, particular attention is paid to patronage and the market; reception and study; gender and race; painters abroad, in Europe as well as Asia and elsewhere; and issues of attribution. Covering an impressively wide range of subjects and styles, Dutch Painting investigates the full panoply of works created by the largest school of seventeenth-century European painters, offering a comprehensive overview of Dutch painting in its own context – and in ours – with a fresh and insightful eye.

Review

'A masterpiece, a brilliantly original synthesis, often revelatory, miraculously condensed, and always readable' - David Carrier, Counterpunch

About the Author

Gary Schwartz is an American art historian residing in the Netherlands. He has written some twenty books on Dutch art, which have been published in ten languages, and is a leading authority on the art of the Dutch Golden Age. In addition to his publications for scholarly journals, art magazines and newspapers, Schwartz has maintained a digital column, aptly named the Schwartzlist, which now has over 400 entries. Schwartz’s book Rembrandt’s Universe was published by Thames & Hudson in 2006.