Vermeer: The Complete Works
 ISBN: 0894682199 is a better choice: ISBN: 0894682199 is a better choice, because it was highly prized and awarded like no other book about Vermeer. Colors here are rendered not very accurately. This book, like others by Harry N Abrams, tends to show the [... more]
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Gerard ter Borch (Studies in the History of Art, ...
Amazon.com Review: Unlike his friend Vermeer, Gerhard ter Borch (1617-1681) may never be the hero of a movie. Yet he is renowned for paintings that reveal the inner lives of men and women while scrupulously rendering the shimmering satin fabric of their [... more]
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Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller
Great Introduction: This painter was an amazing combination of excellent artist, sarcastic and humorous person, and historian -- he painted what he saw - and each tells a story. This book helps guide you through it and points out things in his paintings [... more]
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Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of ...
Exquisite painter brought back into limelight: This exhibition catalogue contains enlightening and thoughtful essays on seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Gerrit Dou. Dou, one of Rembrandt's students, was highly esteemed during his lifetime for his [... more]
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Aelbert Cuyp
From fantasy to realism....: AELBERT CUYP is an art book developed in conjunction with the exhibit of Cuyp's work currently on view at the National Gallery in Washington (10/01-1/02), the National Gallery in London (2/02-5/02), and the Rijksmuseum in [... more]
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Johannes Vermeer
Perfection on a canvas and in a book to take home: The year was 1995. The place was the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The occasion was the exhibit of 21 of the known three dozen paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Dutch master of the seventeenth [... more]
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Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller
Great Introduction: This painter was an amazing combination of excellent artist, sarcastic and humorous person, and historian -- he painted what he saw - and each tells a story. This book helps guide you through it and points out things in his paintings [... more]
$35.00
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Anthony Van Dyck
The Best Book on Anthony Van Dyck: This book commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of Anthony Van Dyck the brilliant Flemish painter. With more than 100 repudiation's of Dyck's best oil paintings and sketches from all phases of Dyck's career. [... more]
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The Public and the Private in the Age of Vemeer
Book Description: Most Dutch paintings, while seemingly true to life, contain ideas and beliefs that remain elusive, however carefully one examines the images. This book examines these fascinating characteristics of Dutch art by bringing together some of [... more]
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Vermeer (Abradale Books)
Vermeer's technique in painting: This book is not an easy read, but it does provide wonderful insights into how Vermeer achieved the effects he did. It certainly heightened my appreciation of his work, both in technical and in artistic terms. Poor [... more]
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Johannes Vermeer
Perfection on a canvas and in a book to take home: The year was 1995. The place was the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The occasion was the exhibit of 21 of the known three dozen paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Dutch master of the seventeenth [... more]
$65.00
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Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (National ...
Disappointing reproductions: I have just viewed the exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. I was most interested in the oil portraits, and I confess I found them stunning. I hoped to purchase the accompanying text, but after looking at both the hard [... more]
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