Amsterdam, the Hague, Haarlem: Critical Notes on The Rijks Museum, The Hague Museum and the Hals Museum |
John C. Van Dyke ISBN: 1417917326 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Art in the Making: Rembrandt |
D Bomford ISBN: 1857093569 "Art in the Making: Rembrandt", which appeared in 1988, was a groundbreaking publication. The first of the award-winning "Art in the Making" series of catalogues and related exhibitions, it presented the results of research into the...(read more) |
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Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia |
Sheila D. Muller ISBN: 0815300654 An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect "Dutch Art" explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the...(read more) |
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Dutch Painting |
R.H. Fuchs ISBN: 0500201676 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Dutch Painting, 1600-1800 |
S Slive ISBN: 0300074514 This lavishly illustrated book is an authoritative study of Dutch painting from 1600 to 1800 and covers all the major artists of the period -- including Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer -- setting them firmly in the wider context of Dutch art. It has...(read more) |
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Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolutio |
W Franits ISBN: 0300102372 The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists - Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou and others - have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Golden...(read more) |
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Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age |
Christopher Lloyd ISBN: 1902163907 The Royal Collection contains some of the finest Dutch paintings of the 17th century in existence. This book provides the reader with an accessible and illustrated guide to the subject and to the major works from the period in the Royal Collection. |
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Euro Deco: British Modern, French Modern, Spanish Art Deco, Dutch Modern, German Modern, Italian Art Deco |
Steven Heller, Louise Fili ISBN: 0500512140 A wide-ranging compilation of Art Deco graphics from six European countries, Euro Deco assembles a wealth of alluring and sophisticated design from an extraordinary period of creative vitality and political turmoil. An essential reference for graphic...(read more) |
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Jan Van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam |
David De Witt ISBN: 0773532757 Jan van Noordt (c.1623/4-1676) created some of the most flamboyant and expressive paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, such as "Susanna and the Elders" and "Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon". Yet little was known about his life and the...(read more) |
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Marlene Dumas (Contemporary Artists) |
Dominic Van Den Boogerd, Barbara Bloom, Mariuccia Casadio ISBN: 0714838233 This text features the artist Marlene Dumas commenting through her work on the state of painting today. She asks the question - what does it mean to be a woman working within the predominantly male genre of expressionist art? The artist often chooses...(read more) |
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Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave |
Cornelia H. Butler ISBN: 1933751088 In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, despair, desire and confusion in order to critique social and political...(read more) |
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Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts |
George S. Keyes, Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Axel Ruger, Arthur K. Wheelock ISBN: 1904832040 A comprehensive study of Dutch Art, from one of the world's premiere...(read more) |
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Rembrandt (Phaidon Colour Library) |
Michael Kitson ISBN: 0714827436 This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction,...(read more) |
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Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Ruud Priem, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel ISBN: 1883124239 This book accompanies the first American touring exhibition of works from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since 1885. Framed by 90 works from Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, and other artists of the 17th-century Golden Age of Dutch...(read more) |
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The Art of the Dutch Republic 1585-1718 |
Mariet Westermann ISBN: 1856694437 The artistic culture of the Dutch republic in the seventeenth century has given us some of the most familiar and best-loved examples of European painting. In this fresh and readable account, Westermann describes this art as it was experienced by the...(read more) |
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles |
Martin Gayford ISBN: 0141016736 Two artistic giants. One small house. From October to December 1888 a pair of largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh ate, drank, talked, argued, slept and painted in one of...(read more) |
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Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors |
Martin Bailey ISBN: 1903278775 Vincent van Gogh has become one of the best-known and best-loved artists in the history of art, but he is said to have sold only a single painting in his entire life. An extraordinary figure, whose art and life were inextricably and tragically...(read more) |
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Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
Richard Kendall, John Leighton ISBN: 0810963663 This work is published to coincide with an exhibition in the USA of a group of Van Gogh's paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection is based on works acquired directly from the artist by his brother. Among the treasures reproduced...(read more) |
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Vermeer (Phaidon Colour Library) |
Martin Bailey ISBN: 068146285X The series has always been highly regarded for its insight and authority, providing an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each volume contains an introductory essay, forty-eight full-page colour plates, accompanied by...(read more) |
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Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces |
Philip Steadman ISBN: 0192803026 This intellectual detective story explores Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th century science and provides exciting new evidence that one of the world's best-loved painters used a camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western Art....(read more) |
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Vermeer: The Complete Works |
Arthur K. Wheelock ISBN: 0810927519 Following the thrilling blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this book presents the complete works of the great Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Oversize, fullpage colorplates of each of Vermeer's 35...(read more) |
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Visiting Van Gogh (Adventures in Art) |
Caroline Breunesse ISBN: 3791318764 Depicts some of Van Gogh's most characteristic paintings, and explains how they reveal the stages in his life, his experiences, and his emotions. |
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