Senses and sins

By Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Jeroen Giltaij, Peter Hecht, Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen, Adriaen Brouwer, Gerritt Dou, Adriaen van Ostade

Subjects: Dutch Painting, Art, European, Art & Art Instruction, Vie dans l'art, Peinture de genre néerlandaise, Exhibitions, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General, Art, modern, 17th-18th centuries, Painting, Expositions, Peinture néerlandaise, Art / History / Renaissance, Painters, europe, Péché dans l'art, Thèmes, motifs, Home in art, In art, Painting, Dutch, Sens et sensations dans l'art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, c 1600 to c 1700, OUR Brockhaus selection, Netherlands, Painting & paintings, Life in art

Description: "This volume provides an overview of the most important of these masters of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Still capable of holding us spellbound today, the exuberant, erotic, elegant, and enigmatic scenes were brought together from a large number of museums in Europe and the United States. They are illustrated here in color and accompanied by detailed commentaries. The introductory essays inquire into frequently discussed possible interpretations of the paintings. And by taking a comparative and critical look at objects of everyday use which have survived from that period, they also examine the extent to which these artworks can actually be viewed as mirrors of past reality."--BOOK JACKET