Picturing men and women in the Dutch Golden Age : paintings and people in historical perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Muizelaar, Klaske, 1947-
Other Authors:	Phillips, Derek L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Painting in art. Manners and customs in art. Painting, Dutch > 17th century. Netherlands > Social life and customs > 17th century.

Table of Contents:

Amsterdam in the Golden Age: the people and their homes
Inside the homes of the wealthy: the conditions for viewing paintings
Portraits: family members, ancestors, and public figures
Christ, the Virgin Mary, Venus, and other religious and mythological figures
Elegant men and women, peasants, and prostitutes
Erotic images in the domestic interior: cultural ideals and social practices
Confronting seventeenth-century art: then and now
Appendix: evidence about paintings in seventeenth-century homes: household inventories.