An Entrance for the Eyes
Subtitle: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780520221352
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings; c 1600 to c 1700; Space (Art); European; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Netherlands; Art / General; General; 17th century; Painting, Dutch
First sentence: into a garden. In many seventeenth-century Dutch portraits, the background view offers not only an attribution or identification but also a spatial context in which to orient the central figure or group.