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Ruth Bernard Yeazell: The Golden Age of Dutch painting, 20 January 2005
Dutch 17th-century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
by Wayne Franits.
Yale, 328 pp., £45, June 2004,0 300 10237 2 Show More
by Wayne Franits.
Yale, 328 pp., £45, June 2004,
“... the first major assault on received ideas about Dutch realism focused on those representations of anonymous figures and commonplace acts that had come to be classified as genre. In the 1960s, an influential group of scholars based in Utrecht began to probe the realistic surface of Dutch painting for symbolic meanings. Inspired by the work of Erwin ... ”