Senses And Sins

by Giltaij, Jeroen; Hecht, Peter; Gaba-Van Dongen, Alexandra; Altes, Everhard Korthals; Renger, Konrad; Lammertse, Friso

• ISBN13: 9783775715232
• ISBN10: 3775715231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Elegant ladies in satin robes, maids wearing starched bonnets, and pensive scholars immersed in study--we might think we know a great deal about life and culture in Holland's Golden Age. Yet, the ordered world of the Dutch burghers shown in Senses and Sinsis inconsistent with our perceptions of the past. The lady of the house drinks wine in the middle of the day, lap dogs copulate on spotless marble floors, and a rough-hewn farmer grimaces in disgust. This book presents the diverse themes and meanings of the school of painting that is so inadequately described as "genre," and, through works by various masters, this potentionally vague style achieves a much stronger definition.

Table of Contents

Painters of Daily Life: An Introduction to the Exhibition	11	(9)
Jeroen Giltaij
There's No Problem Enjoying It, But the Meaning Is Tricky	20	(10)
Peter Hecht
Between Fantasy and Reality: Utensils in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art	30	(12)
Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen
Catalogue
Willem Buytewech 1591 (?)-1624	42	(8)
Dirck Hals 1591--1656	50	(8)
Willem Duyster 1599--1635	58	(10)
Pieter Codde 1599/1600--1678	68	(14)
Symon Kick 1603--1652	82	(6)
Jacob Duck 1596/1600--1667	88	(8)
Adriaen Brouwer 1605/1606--1638	96	(20)
Hendrick Sorgh 1609/1611--1670	116	(8)
Jan Miense Molenaer ca. 1610--1668	124	(4)
Adriaen van Ostade 1610--1685	128	(14)
Gerrit Dou 1613--1675	142	(24)
Ludolf de Jongh 1616--1679	166	(6)
Gerard ter Borch 1617/1618--1681	172	(14)
Quiringh van Brekelenkam ca. 1622--ca. 1669	186	(8)
Jan Steen 1626--1679	194	(14)
Gabriel Metsu 1629--1667	208	(18)
Pieter de Hooch 1629--1684	226	(14)
Cornelis Bega 1631/1632--1664	240	(4)
Johannes Vermeer 1632--1675	244	(14)
Jacob Ochtervelt 1634--1682	258	(8)
Eglon van der Neer 1635/1636--1703	266	(8)
Frans van Mieris 1635(?)--1681	274	(17)
Bibliography	291