Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt

by Mariet Westermann and Mariët Westerman

Book Overview

The caress of fabrics, the sheen of metal, the brittle luminosity of glass -- Dutch genre painters of the Golden Age were so skilled at mimicking the appearance of things that their largely imaginary domestic scenes are utterly convincing pictures of life as it was once lived. The contemporary viewer enters this world of make-believe as eagerly as Dorothy stepped into the land of Oz, with a complete trust in the fitness and accuracy of the illusion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914738461
• ISBN13: 9780914738466
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Denver Art Museum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.