Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Realism Reconsidered

Table of Contents

Introduction Wayne Franits
1. On the history of research concerning the interpretation of Dutch painting Konrad Renger
2. A seventeenth-century theory of art: nature and practice Jan Emmens
3. Realism and seeming realism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting Eddy de Jongh
4. Picturing Dutch culture Svetlana Alpers
5. Tobacco, social deviance and Dutch art in the seventeenth century Ivan Gaskell
6. Didactic and disguised meanings? Several seventeenth-century texts on painting and the iconographical approach to Dutch paintings of this period Eric Jan Sluijter
7. Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting: a reassessment of some current hypotheses Peter Hecht
8. Ter Borch's ladies in satin Alison Kettering
9. Style in Dutch art Walter Liedtke
10. Naturalism as convention: subject, style and artistic self-consciousness in Dutch landscape Lawrence O. Goedde
11. Natural artifice and material values in Dutch still life Celeste Brusati
12. The three-quarter length life-sized portrait in seventeenth-century Holland: the cultural functions of Tranquillitas Ann Jensen Adams
13. How to sit, stand or walk: towards a historical anthropology of Dutch paintings and prints Herman Roodenburg
14. The space of gender in seventeenth-century Dutch painting Elizabeth Alice Honig.