Dutch Baroque Art Books
By STAN PARCHIN and ARTHUR P. KIRMSS
January 21, 2011
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| Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675). Girl with a Pearl Earring (ca. 1661-66). Oil on canvas. 44.5 x 39 cm (17.5 x 15.4 in.). Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. |
Dutch Baroque painting, printmaking and decorative arts during Holland's Golden Age are the subject of this bibliography. Some of its titles are classic studies. Many of them are special exhibition catalogues written by curators and scholars who specialize in 17th-century Netherlandish art, history and civilization. Most of the publications can be obtained in bookstores and through Internet retailers.
General
Alpers, Svetlana. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Barnes, Donna R. and Peter G. Rose. Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Life (exh. cat.). Albany and Syracuse: Albany Institute of History and Art and Syracuse University Press, 2002.
Brown, Christopher. Scenes of Everyday Life: Dutch Genre Painting of the Seventeenth Century. London: Faber & Faber, 1984.
Franits, Wayne E. Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Haak, Bob. The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
Keyes, George S., et al. Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century (exh. cat.). Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1990.
Kloek, Wouter, et al. Rijksmuseum-Stichting: Highlights of the Collection. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum-Stichting, 1995.
Liedtke, Walter. Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
Montias, John Michael. Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Slive, Seymour. Dutch Painting, 1600-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Phaidon, 1981.
Sutton, Peter C. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984.
_____, et al. A Moral Compass: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Painting in the Netherlands (exh. cat.). Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999.
Westermann, Mariët. A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585-1718. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996.
_____, et al. Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt (exh. cat.). Denver and Newark: Denver Art Museum and Newark Museum, 2001.
Frans Hals
Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals—The Complete Work. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1990.
Slive, Seymour, et al. Frans Hals (exh. cat.). London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1989.
Jan van der Heyden
Sutton, Peter C., et al. Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) (exh. cat.). Greenwich, Connecticut: Bruce Museum, 2007.
Pieter de Hooch
Sutton, Peter C. Pieter de Hooch: Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonné. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
_____. Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.
Judith Leyster
Welu, James A. and Pieter Biesboer (eds.), et al. Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World (exh. cat.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Chapman, H. Perry. Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Held, Julius. Rembrandt Studies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Hinterding, Erik, Ger Luijten and Martin Royalton-Kisch, et al. Rembrandt the Printmaker (exh. cat.). London: British Museum, 2000.
Liedtke, Walter and Hubert von Sonnenberg. Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Aspects of Connoisseurship (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.
Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt, His Life, His Paintings. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Jacob van Ruisdael
Slive, Seymour. Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape (exh. cat.). London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.
Jan Steen
Chapman, H. Perry, Wouter Th. Kloek and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996.
Johannes Vermeer
Arasse, Daniel. Vermeer: Faith in Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Gaskell, Ivan and Michiel Jonker (eds.), et al. Vermeer Studies. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998.
Liedtke, Walter. "The Milkmaid" by Johannes Vermeer (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.
_____. Vermeer: The Complete Paintings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2008.
_____ (ed.), et al. Vermeer and the Delft School (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
Steadman, Philip. Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Jan Vermeer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
_____. Vermeer and the Art of Painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
_____ (ed.), et al. Johannes Vermeer (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1995.
Printmaking
Ackley, Clifford S. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt (exh. cat.). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981.
De Jongh, Eddy and Ger Luitjen. Mirror of Everyday Life: Genreprints in the Netherlands, 1550-1700 (exh. cat.). Amsterdam and Ghent: Rijksmuseum, 1997.
Jacobowitz, Ellen S. and Stephanie Loeb Stepanek. The Prints of Lucas van Leyden and His Contemporaries (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1983.
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