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Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Walter A. Liedtke,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Walter A. Liedtke,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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1588392732

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9781588392732

Vermeer and the Delft School

By: Walter A. Liedtke,Michiel Plomp,Axel Rüger,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain)

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Vermeer and the Delft School

By: Walter A. Liedtke,Michiel Plomp,Axel Rüger,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain)

Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has assembled a splendid catalog of Vermeer and his artistic milieu. Seven lengthy, well-illustrated chapters (Liedtke wrote five, Dutch art historians Michiel Plomp and Marten Jan Bok wrote the others) describe life in the city of Delft; the painters Carel Fabritius, Leonart Bramer, and others who preceded Vermeer; the careers of Vermeer and De Hooch; the making of drawings and prints in 17th-century Delft; and the collecting of art in the same period. The catalog follows: each painting, print, and drawing accompanied by a lengthy catalog essay. Oversize: 12.25x9.75". c. Book News Inc.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870999737

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9780870999734

Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Walter A. Liedtke

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Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Walter A. Liedtke

Two volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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361

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0870993569

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9780870993565

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

By: Walter A. Liedtke

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The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

By: Walter A. Liedtke

In this catalogue for the exhibition, Walter Liedtke, Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan, drawing on the Museum's five Vermeers, scenes by other Dutch masters in the Museum's collection, including Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Nicolaes Maes, and Emanuel de Witte, and several works on paper, places the picture in the context of the artist's brief career and relates it to contemporary developments in Dutch art. In addition to an extended discussion of the painting's provenance, he provides a detailed study of the composition, the several revisions made during the course of execution, and the subtle relationships between light and shadow, color, contour, and shape. And he proposes a most intriguing argument for an erotic subtext, pointing out that, like maids and kitchen maids in earlier Netherlandish art, the figure in The Milkmaid was meant to attract the male viewer, to rouse in him temptation and restraint, desire and reservation, while the kitchen maid herself, endowed with traits typically reserved for higher-class women and surrounded by references to romance both literal and oblique, is presented as having amorous thoughts of her own.

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1588393445

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A View of Delft

Vermeer and His Contemporaries

By: Walter Liedtke

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A View of Delft

Vermeer and His Contemporaries

By: Walter Liedtke

A collection of writings on aspects of painting in Delft during the period 1650-1675. It discusses the work of four artists: Carel Fabritius, Gerard Houckgeest, Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer. It explores in particular the relationship between style and observation in their paintings.

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