This volume will mark the first time Johannes Vermeer's iconic painting will be seen in the Southeast. The painting headlines the exhibition, which highlights the artistic genius of Dutch Golden Age painters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals and Jan Steen, through the presentation of more than 35 exceptional works. Through landscapes and portraits, this book will explore the idea that Dutch artists more readily embraced paintings of everyday subjects than their southern European contemporaries, focusing on capturing commonplace scenes of daily life. Dutch artists not only recorded representations of the domestic interior, still lifes and boisterous crowds, but often imbued these scenes with moral undertones and humorous, sarcastic wit. (Exhibition: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (22.6.-29.9.2013)).

Contains reproductions of the objects included in the Royal Cabinet of paintings in the Mauritshuis, The Hague. Also addresses the development of the collection.

Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection that is to be recorded by the twenty-six-year-old artist from Leiden who has yet to attach his famous signature to a painting. As the story builds to its dramatic and inevitable conclusion, the events that transpire throughout the day sway Rembrandt to make fundamental changes to his initial composition. These changes will remain mysteries for centuries until a young art historian closely examines the painting in the twenty-first century, and makes surprising discoveries about the painter, his process, and his genius for capturing enduring truths about human nature in a single moment.

This beautifully illustrated book presents Emilie E.S. Gordenker's personal selection from The Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis, explaining in detail, the reasons for her choices.

Collection includes work from all the great master s of the Dutch Golden Age. Discusses over 150 paintings in depth.

The collection of Dutch old master paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ranks among the most important in the world: its five hundred works by seventeenth-century artists is the world’s fourth largest array outside Holland. 'Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age' seeks to throw light on this substantial collection from the Old Masters’ Gallery. Centred around the highlights of the Museum’s own collection, this exhibition will provide an introduction to the strikingly rich and versatile artistic culture of the “Dutch Golden Age”. It will unfold the richness of genres and versatility of styles in seventeenth-century Dutch painting in a way that is interesting, comprehensible, and delightful for the public. It will throw new light on a body of work of international importance within the Museum of Fine Arts’ own collections. It will also display some pieces from today’s Hungarian private collections. The catalogue will include essays on the historical relations between Hungary and the Netherlands (with special attention to the seventeenth century) and on the history of collecting Dutch painting within Hungary.0Exhibition: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary (28.10.2014-15.02.2015).

Truly collaborative paintings, that is, not simply mechanical but also conceptual co-productions, are rare in the history of art. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue explores just such an extraordinary partnership between Antwerp's most eminent painters of the early seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Rubens and Brueghel executed approximately twenty-five works together between around 1597 and Brueghel's death in 1625. Highly prized and sought after by collectors throughout Europe, the collaborative works of Rubens and Brueghel were distinguished by an extremely high level of quality, further enhanced by the status of the artists themselves. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum to be held July 5 to September 24, 2006, the catalogue features twenty-six color plates of such Rubens/Brueghel paintings as The Return from War, The Feast of Achelo�s, and Madonna and Child in a Garland of Flowers, along with Rubens and Brueghel's collaborations with important contemporaries such as Frans Snyders and Hendrick van Balen. This is the first such publication to fully address and reproduce these works in depth.