The upside-down world : meetings with the Dutch masters /
"Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting ... the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age, and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who...
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| ISBN: | 9781324092254 1324092254 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The way it had to be
- Where to start. Rembrandt: the shadow master ; Jan Lievens: not Rembrandt ; Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: who is an artist? ; Carel Fabritius: the thunderclap ; Johannes Vermeer: the fingerprint beneath the frame
- The picture about anything. Gerard Ter Borch: the human condition ; Pieter de Hooch: a peaceful room in a peaceful land ; Gabriël Metsu: mammonomania ; Jan Steen: the airborne peacock
- Wall power. Hendrick Avercamp: the mute muse ; Frans Hals: at the crossroads ; Pieter Saenredam: infinity in the making ; Paulus Potter: the innocent eye test ; Jacob van Ruisdael: a tragedy for trees ; Albert Eckhout: the past in the land of the future
- Mayflower and May flowers. Rachel Ruysch: my manly art heroine ; Adriaen Coorte: art is
- Afterword: Going back home.