Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

Published by National Gallery of Ireland / Yale University Press, Dublin, 2017

ISBN 10: 0300229593 (ISBN 13: 9780300229592)

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Color-illustrated wraps with white text on a black spine. xv, 304 pages; illustrated in both color and black-and-white. Contents are as follows: Essays -- 1. Vermeer and the masters of genre painting / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 2. Erudition and artistry: The enduring appeal of Dutch genre painting / Arthur K. Wheelock -- 3. Emulative imitation among high-life genre painters / Eric Jan Sluijter -- 4. Acquisition or inheritance?: Material goods in paintings by Vermeer and his contemporaries / Marjorie E. Wieseman -- 5. Collective style and personal manner: Materials and techniques of high-life genre painting / E. Melanie Gifford and Lisha Deming Glinsman -- 6. Painters of and for the elite: Relationships, prices and familiarity with each other's work / Piet Bakker -- 7. The 'Tour of Holland': Visitors from abroad in the United Provinces / Blaise Ducos -- Catalogue -- 1. Corresponding love / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 2. Pen to paper / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- 3. Musical duos / Eric Jan Sluijter -- 4. Inviting duets / Marjorie E. Wieseman -- 5. Strings attached / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 6. Private vanity / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- 7. Reflections / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- 8. Innocence and experience / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 9. The food of love / Quentin Buvelot -- 10. Under the influence / Quentin Buvelot -- 11. Heartache / Eddy Schavemaker -- 12. Tickled sleep / Eddy Schavemaker -- 13. Birds of a feather / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 14. On balance / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- 15. Interlacings / Blaise Ducos -- 16. Inspired by youth / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 17. Maids and morals / Blaise Ducos -- 18. Reaching for the stars / Blaise Ducos -- 19. Back to the viewer / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- 20. Drawn to Ter Borch / Eddy Schavemaker -- 21. Doorkijkjes / Eddy Schavemaker -- 22. Social climbers / Adriaan E. Waiboer.…

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Title
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
Author
Waiboer, Adriaan E. (and) Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Publisher
National Gallery of Ireland / Yale University Press, Dublin
Publication year
2017
Condition
VG+: As new in shrinkwrap
Binding
Softcover
Seller catalogs
European Architecture, Museum Exhibitions - European Art

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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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