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Vermeer and the Delft school / Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger

By:

Liedtke, Walter

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press , c2001Description: 626 p. : illus. ; 32 cmISBN:

9780300088489

Uniform titles:

Toller Cranston Collection

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DDC classification:

REF 759.9492 LIE

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Summary: Delft in the 17th-century has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This work 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Consulta / Referencia	REF 759.9492 LIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027988

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 8-May 27, 2001 and the National Gallery, London, June 20-Sept. 16, 2001

Bibliography and index included

1. Delft and the Delft School: An Introduction / Walter Liedtke -- 2. Delft and the Arts before 1600 / Walter Liedtke -- 3. Painting in Delft from about 1600 to 1650 / Walter Liedtke -- 4. Delft Painting "in Perspective": Carel Fabritius, Leonaert Bramer, and the Architectural and Townscape Painters from about 1650 Onward / Walter Liedtke -- 5. Genre Painting in Delft after 1650: De Hooch and Vermeer / Walter Liedtke -- 6. Drawing and Printmaking in Delft during the Seventeenth Century / Michiel C. Plomp -- 7. Society, Culture, and Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Delft / Marten Jan Bok -- Catalogue. Paintings. Drawings and Prints. Decorative Arts. Along the City Walls: An Imaginary Walk through Seventeenth-Century Delft / Michiel C. Plomp -- Plans of Seventeenth-Century Delft with Locations of Major Monuments and Addresses of Artists and Patrons / Kees Kaldenbach.

Delft in the 17th-century has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This work 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.

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