# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- explore recent debates around the interpretation of seventeenth-century Dutch painting
- consider the strengths and limitations of iconology as an art-historical approach
- examine the notion of ‘realism’ as applied to works of art
- address the relevance of social and cultural context for interpreting works of art
- analyse works of art in terms of different ideas and approaches.

OpenLearn - Dutch painting of the Golden Age
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