Dutch Painting (โดย Gary Schwartz): เล่มนี้ถือเป็นเพชรยอดมงกุฎสำหรับคนรักศิลปะยุคทอง (Golden Age) โดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญระดับโลกอย่าง Gary Schwartz ที่จะพาเราไปสำรวจงานของ Rembrandt และ Vermeer หนังสือเน้นไปที่บริบทของตลาดศิลปะ การอุปถัมภ์ และประเด็นร่วมสมัยอย่างเรื่องเพศและเชื้อชาติที่ซ่อนอยู่ในภาพวาดศตวรรษที่ 17 ทำให้ประวัติศาสตร์ศิลปะดัตช์มีความหมายและน่าติดตามมากยิ่งขึ้น

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Dutch Painting

Pages: 272

Artwork: 161 color illustrations

This authoritative volume 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 significant movements in European art. This engaging 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 readers may be discovering for the first time, such as Adriaen van de Velde and Gesina ter Borch.

In nine chapters, the book delves into patronage and the art market; the reception and study of Dutch painting; gender and race; painters working in Europe, Asia, and beyond; as well as issues of attribution. Covering a broad range of subjects and styles, Dutch Painting examines the full spectrum of seventeenth-century European painters, offering a comprehensive overview of Dutch painting both in its historical context and through a contemporary lens with up-to- date and insightful analysis.

Contributors

Gary Schwartz

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.