An entrance for the eyes
Subtitle: space and meaning in seventeenth-century Dutch art
By: Martha Hollander.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Painting, Dutch -- 17th century; Space (Art)
Notes: "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Karel van Mander: the Doorsien and the language of space. An entrance for the eyes ; Images in conversation ; Into the seventeenth century ; Ideas of order; title: Gerard Dou: the reconfigured emblem. Foreground and background ; An art of surfaces ; Drape and curtain ; The space of emblems ; Uses of the background scene ; Pictures within pictures ; An empty room; title: Nicolaes Maes: space as domestic territory. The eavesdroppers ; Pictorial space at mid-century ; Re-creating the Dutch interior ; Mistresses and maids ; Diligence and desire; title: Pieter de Hooch: indoors and out. Figures in a courtyard ; Home and cityscape ; Masculine and feminine spaces ; Privacy and community ; Exchanges at the doorway ; Public interiors.