The Story of Dutch PaintingCaffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry)
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The Story of Dutch Painting
Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry)
Painting, Dutch
Antwerp, glory of, 7;
“Image-Breaking” at, 22;
school of painting, 22;
birthplace of Hals, 50
Antwerp Museum, _Day of Judgment_ [Van Orley], 15
Art:
the need of the people, 4;
French at time of Revolution, 5;
imitation death of national art, 6;
decline of Dutch in eighteenth century, 6;
affected by imperialism, influenced by Church, 11;
by Renaissance, 12;
condition at abdication of Charles V, 14;
realism of Dutch, 27;
moral and scientific character of, 28;
commencement of great period of, 29;
still-life, 31;
portraiture, 49;
beauty of inanimate things, 59;
democratic ideal of Dutch, 72;
Rembrandt’s compared to Greek, 72;
actor’s instinct shown by painters, 75;
abstract in, 94;
decorative, 94;
Barbizon, 171
Art-History Museum, Vienna. See _Vienna_
_Artist in his Studio_ [Vermeer], 140
_Asking a Blessing_ [Maes], 114
Asselyn, Jan, 44;
_Enraged Swan, The_, 44
_Avenue of Middelharnis_ [Hobbema], 191
B
Bakhuysen, Ludolf, 44
Balckeneijnde, Adriana, wife of Paul Potter, 179
_Bank of a Canal_ [Van Goyen], 188
_Banquet of the Civic Guard_ [Van der Helst], 164
_Banquet of the Officers of the Archers of St. Andrew_ [Hals], 66
_Banquet of the Officers of the Archers of St. George_ [Hals], 64
_Banquet of the Officers of the Archers of St. George_ [Hals], 65
Barbizon artists, 171
Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, 87
_Beach, The_ [Jacob van Ruisdael], 198
_Bear Hunt, The_ [Potter], 180
Bega, Cornelis, 110
“Beggars, The,” 21
“Beggars of the Sea,” 23
Berchem, Nicolaes, 30, 39, 43, 174, 178, 184, 195
Berlaymont, 21
Berlin:
pictures in gallery:
_St. Jerome in a Cave_, Rembrandt, 76;
_Portrait of Himself_, Rembrandt, 78;
_Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels_, Rembrandt, 89;
_Old Woman Peeling Apples_, Maes, 115;
_Portrait of Old Woman_, Metsu, 118;
_Family Geelvink_, Metsu, 120;
_The Mother_, De Hooch, 121;
_The Concert_, Terborch, 130;
_Diana with her Nymphs_, Vermeer, 135;
_Lady with a Pearl Necklace_, Vermeer, 138;
_The Christening Party_, Steen, 146;
_Portrait of a Young Woman_, Flinck, 153;
_A Man Praying_, Fabritius, 158;
_Raising of Jairus’s Daughter_, _Presentation of Christ in the Temple_,
_Mercury and Argus_, Eeckhout, 159;
_Old Lady and her Daughters_, _Old Man and his Sons_, De Keyser, 166;
_Landscape and Cattle_, Koninck, 173;
_Boar Hunt_, Potter, 180;
_View of Arnheim_, _View of Nimwegen_, Van Goyen, 188;
_View of Haarlem from the Dunes_, Jacob van Ruisdael, 197
Biblical pictures, 74, 103-105, 150;
by Steen, 148;
Flinck, 151;
Fabritius, 156;
Bol, 163;
Eeckhout, 158;
De Gelder, 160;
Van de Velde, 183
_Big Wood, The_ [Jacob van Ruisdael], 199
_Blacksmith, The_ [Metsu], 117
_Boar Hunt, The_ [Potter], 180
Bode, W., quoted, 54, 114, 117, 134, 176-195
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