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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some slight tanning due to age but Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Rembrandt and Vermeer are the names most often quoted as Old Masters; Frans Hals’s Laughing Cavalier and Meyndert Hobbema’s Avenue at Middleharnis are known to most people interested in art. But the Dutch of the seventeenth century were the most prolific painters of all time and this superb encyclopedia places the great alents of Rembrandt Hals and Vermeer in the context of the dozens of lesser masters like Ruisdael Cuyp Metsu and Terborch- indeed some of the works of these artists are reproduced here for the first time in colour. The introduction traces the history of Netherlandish painting leading up to the burst of creativity at the time when the Dutch became independent of Spanish domination. Each centre of activity is described in detail and the relationships between the artists are explained. The introduction is followed by the main section of the book an alphabetical guide to more than a hundred of the creative geniuses of the Dutch school giving bio- graphical details an analysis of the artist’s style and an assessment of his influence. In each case there is at least one exquisitely reproduced example in full colour including a full descriptive caption and a history of the painting. A unique feature of this book is a complete list of all public collections large and small where genuine examples of each artist’s work can be found. (MP)