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“... one might want to sit down with The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the 17th Century, a new book by Bob Haak, director of the Amsterdam Historical Museum. This survey offers a fine introduction to Dutch art, to the country in which it was produced, and to the current ‘state of the art’ of Dutch art history. After an ample introductory section, the book ...”

“... Sixties, to set about defining the corpus once and for all. Under van de Wetering’s mentors, Bob Haak and Josua Bruyn, the Project slashed away at long-established attributions, armed with dendrochronologies and radiographs, terrorising museums as their masterpieces were demoted to derivative dross. This reductive rigour is represented in van de ...”