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Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters. Almost 300--mainly Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and Spanish--are here given biographical coverage based on an extensive bibliography of contemporaneous, later, and recent scholarship. Attention is focused on training, travel, commissions, stylistic influences and legacy, and pupils. For each artist, the oeuvre is analyzed with reference to major works, and a detailed list of additional works with museum holdings is appended. References are keyed to the backmatter bibliography, and museum citations refer to a list of 183 collections around the world. An appendix groups the featured artists by nationality, and an index completes the volume.
List of contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
The Dictionary
Appendix: Artists by Nationality
Bibliography
Index
About the author
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.
