Книга: «Dutch Painting in Soviet Museums»
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The artistic genius of the Dutch has always found its highest expression in painting. Their canvases are valued the world over for warmth, liveliness, color, keen observation of human behavior, and peerless execution. Russian collectors over the centuries amassed an extraordinary treasure of Dutch works, studded with jewels by such masters as Rembrandt, Lucas van Leyden, Frans Hals, Vincent van Gogh, and Kees van Dongen. This treasure is for the first time available to Western art lovers in one magnificent book: Dutch Painting in Soviet Museums. The volume is broad in scope, covering five centuries of Dutch painting from its beginnings in the fifteenth century. It is particularly rich in works from the seventeenth century - the Golden Age of Dutch art. The Introduction provides a satisfying backdrop to the superb plates, accompanied by commentaries that offer brief biographies of the artists, the history of each work and much other information that will be of interest... Издательство: "Аврора" (1982) Формат: 270x340, 524 стр.
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