Girl with a pearl earring : Dutch paintings from the Mauritshuis / edited by Lea Van der Vinde ; with contributions by Quentin Buvelot, Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Petria Noble, Lynn Federle Orr, Ariane van Suchtelen.
Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and DelMonico Books/Prestel, on the occasion of the exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring, de Young Museum, San Francisco January 26/June 2, 2013, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 22/September 29, 2013, Frick Collection, New York, October 22, 2013/January 12, 2014. This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis. Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index.
Contents:
Still lifes. Lea van der Vinde, Quentin Buvelot, and Ariane van Suchtelen. The history of the Mauritshuis and its collection / Lea van der Vinde -- The Mauritshuis of the future / Emilie E.S. Gordenker -- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer: the Dutch Mona Lisa / Quentin Buvelot and Ariane van Suchtelen -- New techniques for old masters: conservation and technical research at the Mauritshuis / Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Petria Noble -- Catalogue of paintings / Lea van der Vinde, Quentin Buvelot, and Ariane van Suchtelen. Portraits and tronies ; Landscapes and seascapes ; Genre paintings ; History paintings ; Still lifes.
Summary:
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. 0Exhibition: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (22.6.-29.9.2013)
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