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# Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 ‘A new state, a new art’
- 2 Realism and art-for-art’s sake
- 3 Dutch history painting
- 4 Disguised symbolism and ‘seeming realism’
  - Clues to interpretation
- 5 ‘To instruct and delight’
- 6 Landscape painting and the limitations of the iconological approach
  - Interpreting the Dutch landscape
- 7 The role of conventions
  - 7.1 Landscape conventions and the question of meaning
- 8 Realism reconsidered
  - 8.1 The artifice of verisimilitude
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements

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