E. V. Bibliography:
Dutch History and Culture: An Essential Selection

(201 entries)

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ABELS, Paul, "Church and Religion in the Times of Vermeer." in Dutch Society in the Age of Vermeer, Zwolle, 1996

ADAMS, Ann, "Money and the Regulation of Desire. The Prostitute and the Marketplace in Seventeenth-Century Holland," in Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, Fumerton and Hunt eds., Philadelphia, 1999.

ALPERS, Svetlana, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century, Chicago, 1983

ALPERS, Svetlana, Rembrandt's enterprise : the studio and the market, Chicago, 1988

BAER, The paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) , Ph.D. diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1990

BAILEY, Anthony, Rembrandt's House, Boston, MA and London, 1978

BAILEY, Anthony, A Concise History of the Low Countries, New York, 1972

BEDAUX, J. B., "Fruit and Fertility: Fruit Symbolism in Netherlandish Portraiture of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Simiolus, XVII, 1987, pp. 150-168

BLANKERT, Albert, Selected Writings on Dutch Paintings: Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer and Others, Zwolle, 2004

BLEYSWIJCK, Dirck van, Beschryvinge der Stadt Delft, Delft, 1667

BORGER, E., De Hollandse kortegaard, geschilderde wachtlokalen uit de Gouden Eeuw, Zwolle/Naarden 1996

BROWN; Christopher, Carl Fabritius, Oxford, 1981

BROWN; Christopher, Scenes of Everyday Life: Dutch Genre painting in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1984

BROWN, Christopher, Images of a Golden Past: Dutch Genre Painting of the Seventeenth Century, New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.

BRUSATI, Celeste, Artifice and Illusion: The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten, Chicago and London, 1995

BURKE, Peter, Dutch Popular Culture in the Seventeenth Century: A Reconnaissance, Rotterdam, 1978

VAN DER COELEN, Peter... [et al.], Everyday life in Holland's Golden Age : the complete etchings of Adriaen van Ostade, Amsterdam, 1998

COREMONS, P.B., Van Meegeren's Faked Vermeer and de Hoochs, London and Amsterdam, 1949

DAM, Jan Daniel van, Dated Dutch Delftware, Zwolle, 1991

DEURSEN, A. T. van, Plain Lives in a Golden Age, Cambridge, 1991

DOBELL, Clifford, Antony Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals," London, 1932; reprinted in New York, 1960

EVELYN, John, Diary, ed., E.S. de Beer, Oxford, 1959

FRANITS, Wayne, Dutch Seventeenth Century Genre Painting: Its Thematic and Stylistic Evolution, New Haven 2004.

FOCK, C. Willemijn, ed. Het Nederlandse interieur in beeld 1600-1900 , Zwolle 2001

GEYL, Pieter, The Revolt of the Netherlands, London,1932; reprinted 1996

GOLDSMITH, Jane ten Brink... [et al.], Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674 : ingenious painter and draughtsman in Rome and Delft, Zwolle, 1994

HOFRICHTER, Frima Fox, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674 : a painter of the night, Milwaukee, 1992

HORN, Hendrik J. The Golden Age Revisited: Arnold Houbraken’s Great Theatre of Netherlandish Painters and Paintresses, 2 vols. Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 2000.

HOLLANDER; Martha, An Entrance for the Eye: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Berkley, 2002

HUIZINGA, Johan, Dutch Civilization in the Seventeenth Century, London and New York, 1968

HUYGENS, Constantijn, A Selection of the Poems of Sir Constantijn Huygens; trans. P. Davison and A. van der Weel, Amsterdam, 1996

ISREAL, Jonathan, The Dutch Republic, Oxford, 1995

JONGH, E., Kwesties van betekenis. Thema en motief in de Nederlandse schilderkunst van de zeventiende eeuw , Leiden 1995

research, map and text by Kees KALDENBACH, Johannes Vermeer and the Delft school : a full colour chart showing the homes of circa 120 artists and circa 130 patrons who lived in 17th century Delft, Amsterdam, 2001

KETTERING, Alison McNeil, The Dutch Arcadia: pastoral art and its audience in the golden age, Montclair, New Jersey 1983.

Van KLOMPENBURG, CRUM, Carol and Dorothy, Dutch Touches: Recipes and Traditions, Penfield Books, 1996

KLOOSTER, Wim, The Dutch in America, 1600-1800, Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1997.

KURETSKY, S.D., The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682), Oxford 1979.

De LEY, Gerd, ed, Dictionary of 1000 Dutch Proverbs, Hippocrene Books, 1998.

LIEDTKE, Walter A., Architectural painting in Delft, Doornspijk 1982.

LOUGHMAN, John and MONTIAS, John Michael, Public and private spaces : works of art in seventeenth-century Dutch houses, Zwolle, 2000

MONCOYS, Balthasar de, Journal des Voyages, three volumes, Lyons, 1665-1666

MONTIAS, John Michael, Artists and artisans in Delft : a socio-economic study of the seventeenth century, Princeton, 1982

MONTIAS, John Michael, Artists and Artisans in Delft, Princeton, New Jersey, 1982

MONTIAS, John Michael, Art at auction in 17th century Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2002

NAUMANN, O., Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681), Doornspijk 198

PAVORD, Anna, The Tulip, London, 1999

RILEY, Gillian, The Dutch Table: Gastronomy in the Golden Age of the Netherlands (Painters and Food Series), Pomegranate Press, 1994

ROBINSON, F.W., Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667): A Study of his Place in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age, New York 1974

ROODENBURG, Herman, "The Autobiography of Isabella de Moerloose: Sex, Childbearing and Popular Belief in Seventeenth Century Holland," Journal of Social History 18 (1985), pp. 517-540

ROSENBERG, Jakob, with Seymour Clive and E.H. Ter Kuile, Dutch Art and Architecture 1600 to 1800, Harmondsworth, Middlesexand Baltimore, MD, 1966

ROSE, Peter G., The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989.

ROY, Alan, Gèrard de Lairesse (1640-1711), Paris, 1992

SALOMON, Nanette, Jacob Duck and the gentrification of Dutch genre painting, Doornspijk, 1998

SALOMON, Nanette, Shifting priorities : gender genre in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Stanford, 2004

SCHAMA, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches, New York and London, 1987

SCHAMA, Simon, Rembrandt's Eye, New York and London, 1999

SCHEEMAN, L.T., Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh: A painter of Rotterdam, Ann Arbor 1982

SEGAL, Sam, A prosperous past: the sumptuous still life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700, exhib.cat. Delft (Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof), Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fogg Art Museum)

STRIEN, C.D. van, British Travelers in Holland during the Stuart Period, Leiden, 1993

SUTTON, Peter C., Masters of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, exhib.cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum), Boston (Museum of Fine Arts) and Philadelphia (Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts) 1987-1988, London 1987.

SUTTON, P., Pieter de Hooch, Complete Edition, Oxford/New York 1980

WESTERMANN, Mariët, A Worldly Art. The Dutch Republic 1585-1718, New York, 1996

WESTERMANN, Mariët, The Amusements of Jan Steen, Zwolle 1997

WESTERMANN, Mariët, "Adriaen van de Venne, Jan Steen, and the Art of Serious Play", De Zeventiende Eeuw, 15/1, 1999

WESTERMANN, Mariët, "Wooncultur in me Nemerlands: A Historiography in Progress", Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 51, 2000, pp. 17-33

WESTERMANN, Mariët, Art and Home. Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, exh.cat., Denver, Denver Art Museum, and Newark (New Jersey) The Newark Art Museum, 2001-2002.

WESTERMANN, Mariët,"'Costly and Curious, Full of pleasure and home contentment', Making Home in the Dutch Republic." in Art and Home. Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, 2001-2002, pp. 15-81.

WHEELOCK, Arthur K., Jr., Perspective, Optics and Delft Artists around 1650, New York, 1977

WHEELOCK, Arthur K., Jr., "History, Politics and a Portrait of a City, Vermeer's View of Delft." see Susan Zimmerman and R.F.E. Weissman, editors, Urban Life in the Renaissance

Wheelock, Arthur K., Author/Editor with contrib. by Michiel C. Plomp, Daniëlle H.A.C. Lokin, Quint Gregory , The public and the private in the age of Vermeer, London, 2000

WILENSKI, R.H., Dutch Painting (1929); revised edition, London, 1955

ZUMTHOR, Paul, Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland, 1953