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About the book >.>.> Pieter de Hooch one of the most famous and innovative artists of Holland’s Golden Age played a pioneering role in the Delft School and in the advancement of genre painting and naturalism in the seventeenth century. Best known for his expressive use of interior space and sun-filled courtyards de Hooch’s command of perspec- tive and responsiveness to light and atmosphere were unprecedented and his work undoubtedly influenced his younger but more famous colleague Vermeer. This beautiful book examines de Hooch’s position in Dutch genre painting and the social and political context of his art in the United Netherlands. It also addresses the artist’s favored themes-in particular the virtue of domesticity-and relates them to Dutch civilization literature and the history of the family in the Protestant republic. Peter Sutton investigates de Hooch’s approach to narration and his practice of encoding commentaries through symbolism gesture and such time-honored devices as the painting within the painting. In addition he discusses new technical data concerning the artist’s painting techniques materials and working methods. Through word and image the book traces de Hooch’s artistic develop- ment from this early beloved Delft period to his more elegant and aristocratic paintings from his later years in Amsterdam. This book serves as the catalogue of the exhibition held at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford in 1998-99. (MP)