The charm and fascination of Dutch genre paintings of the seventeenth century is the way that they capture everyday people doing everyday things. This collection explores the hidden narratives, jokes and moral messages in these everyday scenes from the Golden Age of Dutch art
Desmond Shawe-Taylor is Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures, Royal Collection Trust. He is the author of several books, including Dutch Landscapes, also published by Royal Collection Trust. Quentin Buvelot is Senior Curator at the Mauritshuis. His recent books include Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt.
"Masters of the Everyday is splendid, featur[ing] comprehensive,
lavishly illustrated entries on twenty-seven beautiful pictures by
some of the most outstanding Dutch masters of the seventeenth
century."-- "HNA Review of Books, Historians of Netherlandish Art"
(5/16/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"Vermeer's reputation is based on about thirty-five paintings, and
one of them is at the center of the Royal Collection's Masters of
the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer. The
seventeenth-century Dutch painter's delicate scene is complemented
by twenty-six works of his contemporaries."-- "Wall Street Journal,
on the exhibition" (12/30/2015 12:00:00 AM)
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