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Title: Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675 : master painter in the age of Rembrandt
Description: Washington : National Gallery of Art, 2000. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 159 pp. : ills. 28 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Gerrit Dou, an early pupil of Rembrandt's, was one of the most highly esteemed Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, celebrated for the extraordinarily sensitive images he created with his fine and delicate technique. This beautiful book assembles and discusses thirty-five of his finest paintings. Founder of the Leiden school of fijn-schilders, or fine painters, Dou had an international clientele and was lauded by the theorist Philips Angel in his 1642 treatise Lof der Schilderkonst as an artist worthy of the honor accorded the ancients. The book presents a wide range of subjects painted by Dou over the course of his career. These include portraiture, still life, and religious images as well as scenes of daily life -- mothers with their children, painters in their studios, scholars, shopkeepers, schoolmasters, musicians, and astronomers. Many of these works incorporate symbolic elements that Dou used to reflect the complexity of life's moral and ethical dilemmas. ISBN 9780300083699.

Keywords: ART,

Price: EUR 18.00 = appr. US$ 19.56 Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
- Book number: %23150759