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Esmee Quodbach - Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals - 9780271062013 - V9780271062013
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Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals

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Description for Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals Hardback. Collecting the Art of Rembrandt Vermeer and Hals. Num Pages: NO. Dimension: 215 x 263 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1408.

Americans have long had a taste for the art and culture of Holland’s Golden Age. As a result, the United States can boast extraordinary holdings of Dutch paintings. Celebrated masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals are exceptionally well represented, but many fine paintings by their contemporaries can be found as well. In this groundbreaking volume, fourteen noted American and Dutch scholars examine the allure of seventeenth-century Dutch painting to Americans over the past centuries. The authors of Holland’s Golden Age in America explain in lively detail why and how American collectors as well as museums ... Read more

In addition to the editor, the contributors are Ronni Baer, Quentin Buvelot, Lloyd DeWitt, Peter Hecht, Lance Humphries, Walter Liedtke, Louisa Wood Ruby, Catherine B. Scallen, Annette Stott, Peter C. Sutton, Dennis P. Weller, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., and Anne T. Woollett.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271062013
SKU
V9780271062013
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Esmee Quodbach
Esmée Quodbach is Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library in New York.

Reviews for Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals
“This book provides answers for anyone who has ever wondered why there are so many great Dutch paintings in U.S. collections. Essays by leading curators and scholars draw on the history of art, as well as an understanding of cultural, economic, and political conditions, to illuminate the American taste for seventeenth-century Dutch painting.” —Emilie Gordenker, Director, Mauritshuis, The Hague ... Read more

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