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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.
- 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, 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, 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, Pete, 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, Berkeley, 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 1981.
- 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), 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: Sender 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-Bentury DutchLandscape 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," in De Zeventiende Eeuw, 15/1, 1999
- WESTERMANN, Mariët, "Wooncultur in me Nemerlands: A Historiography in Progress," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 51 (2000): 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, 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., Jr. author and editor with contributions by Michiel C. Plomp, Daniëlle H.A.C. Lokin, Quint Gregory, The Public and the Private in the Age of Vermeer, London, 2000.
- WILCOXEN, Charlotte, and Nina Fleishman. Dutch Tade and Ceramics in America in the Seventeenth Century. Albany, NY Albany Institute of History and Art., 2010.
- WILENSKI, R.H., Dutch Painting (1929); revised edition, London, 1955.
- ZUMTHOR, Paul, Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland, 1953.
Recommended Vermeer Reading
The Cambridge Companionto Vermeer (Cambridge
Companions to the History of Art)
ed. Wayne Franits 2001
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