Dutch painting of the Golden Age
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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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