Painting of the Golden Age: A Biographical Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century European Painters

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This bibliographical dictionary contains details of almost 300 17th-century European painters, mainly Dutch, Flemish, Italian and Spanish. The information has been derived from both contemporaneous and more recent scholarship. Attention is focused on training, travel, commissions, stylistic influences and legacies, and upon pupils of the artists. Each artist's output is analysed with reference to major works; a detailed list of additional works, with museum holdings, is appended. References are keyed to the endmatter bibliography, and museum citations are linked to a list of 183 collections around the world. The appendix groups featured artists by nationality and an index completes the volume.

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The first one-volume biographical dictionary in English to provide extensive summaries of the lives of nearly three hundred painters who were active in Europe during the seventeenth century. An extraordinary accomplishment and should be included in all art and humanities, as well as general, collections. It holds particular promise for anyone about to enter upon a pilgrimage to major art collections and museums at home and abroad.-RQ Summer 1994
"The first one-volume biographical dictionary in English to provide extensive summaries of the lives of nearly three hundred painters who were active in Europe during the seventeenth century. An extraordinary accomplishment and should be included in all art and humanities, as well as general, collections. It holds particular promise for anyone about to enter upon a pilgrimage to major art collections and museums at home and abroad."-RQ Summer 1994

Author Bio

ADELHEID M. GEALT is Director of the Indiana University Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University. She is author of several books and catalogs, including Italian Portrait Drawing, 1400-1800, from North American Collections (1983), Looking at Art, A Visitor's Guide to Art Museums (1983), and Domenico Tiepolo, The Punchinello Drawings (1986), and coauthor of Art of the Western World (1989), a companion text for a WNET national television series. Other publications have appeared in journals, museum bulletins, catalogs, and reference books. She is developing a companion reference volume on seventeenth-century European paintings, which will analyze genres, subjects, and thematic content.