An independent art historian introduces you to the creative and talented people who made the art of Holland so special.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Expert
- 01: Art and Society in 16th-Century Netherlands
- 02: The Years of Crisis in the Netherlands
- 03: Art in Haarlem and Utrecht, c. 1530–1625
- 04: Facing the Truth—Candid Portraits
- 05: Dutch Portraits, c. 1635–75
- 06: Frans Hals—The Early Years
- 07: Frans Hals—Civic Group Portraits
- 08: Frans Hals—Later Portraits
- 09: Town and City
- 10: Daily Life in the Town
- 11: Daily Life in the Home
- 12: Music and the Studio
- 13: Jan Steen—Order and Disorder in Dutch Life
- 14: Pieter de Hooch and Quietude
- 15: Art in Delft
- 16: Johannes Vermeer, c. 1655–60
- 17: Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660–65
- 18: Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665–70
- 19: Still-Life Painting, c. 1620–54
- 20: Still-Life Painting, c. 1652–82
- 21: Landscape Painting—The Early Decades
- 22: Landscapes of Jan van Goyen and Rembrandt
- 23: Foreign Landscapes
- 24: Landscape Painting in the 1640s and 1650s
- 25: Jacob van Ruisdael
- 26: Dutch Landscape Painting until 1689
- 27: Marine Painting
- 28: The Moral of the Story—History Painting
- 29: The Decoration of the Amsterdam Town Hall
- 30: Rembrandt to 1630
- 31: Rembrandt in Amsterdam, 1631–34
- 32: Rembrandt and the Baroque Style
- 33: Rembrandt's Personal Baroque Style
- 34: Rembrandt's Etchings
- 35: Rembrandt in the 1650s
- 36: Rembrandt's Last Years
Taught by
William Kloss
