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Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, [1] during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
In the Netherlands, over a thousand artists worked During the Golden Age (which actually lasted less than ninety years). They created countless masterpieces — the hard bitten Dutch people adored painting.
Landscape painting exploded during the Dutch Golden Age, bringing with it an emphasis upon the unique characteristics of Dutch landscape features, villages, and rural life connected with a rising esteem for Dutch values.
Rachel Ruysch was the best documented women painter of the Dutch Golden Age, partly due to a long and successful career that spanned six decades. A still-life painter from the Northern...
The painting entitled The Golden Age (1605) by Utrecht artist Joachim Wtewael, referred to the classical myth taking its subject from the opening pages of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It describes a land where “spring was everlasting,” “streams of sweet nectar flowed” and mankind lived peacefully and contentedly.
Today, the best-known painters of the Dutch Golden Age are the period's most dominant figure Rembrandt, the Delft master of genre Johannes Vermeer, the innovative landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, and Frans Hals, who infused new life into portraiture.
The art of the Dutch Golden Age revolutionized portraiture and catalyzed the centuries-long tradition of symbolic still-life painting. Discover what made 17th-century Dutch art so innovative and iconic.
Johannes Vermeer (/ v ər ˈ m ɪər, v ər ˈ m ɛər /; Dutch: [vərˈmeːr], see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
A prolific painter, draftsman, and etcher, Rembrandt van Rijn is usually regarded as the greatest artist of Holland’s “Golden Age.” He worked first in his native Leiden and, from 1632 onward, in Amsterdam, where he had studied briefly (ca. 1624) with the influential history painter Pieter Lastman.
With the foundation of the Dutch Republic came an unprecedented flourishing of the arts that is widely referred to as the Dutch Golden Age. The National Gallery of Art collection includes works by the artistic giants of the era, among them Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals, with outstanding examples of the portraits, genre ...