Prestel - The Golden Age Of Dutch And Flemish Painting - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce science and art. Still lifes landscape paintings and romantic depictions of everyday life became valued by the increasingly wealthy merchant classes in the Dutch provinces while religious and historic paintings as well as portraits continued to appeal to the Flemish patronage. The Golden Age brought us Rembrandt Vermeer Rubens and Van Dyck but it was also the period of Frans Hals revolutionary portraiture Adriaen Brouwer's depictions of the working class at play Jan Brueghel's velvety miniatures and Hendrick Avercamp's lively winter landscapes. Norbert Wolf applies his vast understanding of the interplay between history culture and art to explore the forces that led to the Golden Age in Holland and Flanders and how this period influenced later generations of artists. Accompanied by luminous color illustrations Wolf's accessible text considers the complex political religious social and economic situation that led to newfound prosperity and thus to an enormous artistic output that we continue to marvel at and enjoy today.
Title: The Golden Age Of Dutch And Flemish Painting
Brand: Prestel
Barcode: 9783791377674
Pages: 272 Pages, 220
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs