Dutch Classicism in Seventeenth-century Painting

• Author(s): Albert Blankert (kunsthistoricus.), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands),
• Publisher: NAi Publishers
• Pages: 351
• ISBN_10: 9056621211
  ISBN_13: 9789056621216
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / General , Art / European ,

Description:... With this illustrated catalogue, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Städelsch Kunstistitut present the other face of the Golden Age - the painters of Dutch classicism. Inspired by the art of classical Antiquity and that of the Italian High Renaissance, they developed an austere and refined style. Their paintings depicting biblical and mythological scenes presented the court, the regents and the intelligentsia in the seventeenth century with an alternative to so-called Dutch Realism. In this publication, Dutch classicism is viewed from all sides.