Dutch Masters Frans Hals Johannes Vermeer And Rembrandt Van Rijn

During the 1600s in Holland, world trade, artistic expression, and freedom flourished. Artists such as Hals, Vermeer, and Rembrandt gave rise to this period of Dutch art being called the Golden Age. What does the reviewer think of various works by these Dutch Masters? Will you agree or disagree? Will you want to view more works of art by one, several, or all of the artists? Read these reviews to find out.

Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.

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

"The Metropolitan Museum is home to the finest collection of Dutch art outside of Europe--including 20 works by Rembrandt himself--and all 228 of these masterpieces are displayed together for the first time in this major special exhibition. The exhibition, which coincides with the publication of the first catalogue of the collection, celebrates Rembrandt's 400th birthday. On view is a rich array of works dating mostly between 1600 and 1700--landscapes, genre pictures, still lifes, marine views, portraiture, and historical and biblical paintings--by Rembrandt and other celebrated Dutch masters such as Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Gerard ter Borch, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Aelbert Cuyp. Broadly outlining how the collection was formed, the exhibition reflects the taste for Dutch art in America and among New York's great collectors of the past two centuries--"Metropolitan Museum of Art web site, viewed May 5, 2010

Key works by Rembrandt and Dutch painters from Hals to Vermeer, from a legendary New York collection The Leiden Collection, created by Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, and based in New York, has assembled over 250 paintings in the past 15 years, including masterpieces by Rembrandt and many of the finest artists from the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age. Surveyed in this volume, the collection has extraordinary depth and breadth with artists working in the city of Leiden in the Netherlands--including early Rembrandt, but also outstanding works by Jan Lievens, Gerrit Dou and Frans van Mieris, who spent their entire lives in their native town. Following Rembrandt, who moved to Amsterdam, the collection also contains a trove of paintings by masters who worked there but also in Utrecht, and Antwerp in the Southern Netherlands, as well as the Haarlem master Frans Hals and the famed Johannes Vermeer of Delft. The collection's primary focus is on portraits, genre subjects and history scenes, paintings in which the human figure (whether singularly or in relationship to others) is the focus. Above all, this richly layered collection, with Rembrandt at its core, allows one to examine the multifaceted relationships that existed among artists working within and beyond the Netherlands throughout the 17th century.

Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.

This volume will mark the first time Johannes Vermeer's iconic painting will be seen in the Southeast. The painting headlines the exhibition, which highlights the artistic genius of Dutch Golden Age painters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals and Jan Steen, through the presentation of more than 35 exceptional works. Through landscapes and portraits, this book will explore the idea that Dutch artists more readily embraced paintings of everyday subjects than their southern European contemporaries, focusing on capturing commonplace scenes of daily life. Dutch artists not only recorded representations of the domestic interior, still lifes and boisterous crowds, but often imbued these scenes with moral undertones and humorous, sarcastic wit. (Exhibition: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (22.6.-29.9.2013)).