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9780300088489

Vermeer and the Delft School

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300088489

  • ISBN10:

    0300088485

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-02-08
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Summary

Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced fine examples of all the major arts -- including luxury goods and sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself.

The book traces the history and culture of Delft from the 1200s through the lifetime of the city's most renowned painter, Johannes Vermeer. The authors discuss at length some ninety major paintings (seventeen by Vermeer), forty drawings, and a choice selection of decorative arts, all of which are reproduced in full color. Among the paintings are state portraits, history pictures, still lifes, views of palaces and church interiors, illusionistic murals, and refined genre pictures by Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. The rich works on paper encompass exquisite drawings by Delft artists and sketches of the town by visiting artists. Included in the decorative arts are tapestries, bronze statuary,

Table of Contents

Directors' Foreword vii
Lenders to the Exhibition ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note to the Reader xiii
Delft and the Delft School: An Introduction
2(18)
Walter Liedtke
Delft and the Arts before 1600
20(22)
Walter Liedtke
Painting in Delft from about 1600 to 1650
42(56)
Walter Liedtke
Delft Painting ``in Perspective'': Carel Fabritius, Leonaert Bramer, and the Architectural and Townscape Painters from about 1650 Onward
98(32)
Walter Liedtke
Genre Painting in Delft after 1650: De Hooch and Vermeer
130(40)
Walter Liedtke
Drawing and Printmaking in Delft during the Seventeenth Century
170(26)
Michiel C. Plomp
Society, Culture, and Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Delft
196(15)
Marten Jan Bok
CATALOGUE 211(356)
Paintings
212(228)
Drawings and Prints
440(71)
Decorative Arts
511(37)
Tapestries
Bronzes
Silver and Silver Gilt
Delftware
Glass
Along the City Walls: An Imaginary Walk through Seventeenth-Century Delft
548(9)
Michiel C. Plomp
Plans of Seventeenth-Century Delft with Locations of Major Monuments and Addresses of Artists and Patrons
557(10)
Kees Kaldenbach
Notes 567(21)
Bibliography 588(25)
Index 613(13)
Photograph Credits 626

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