Category: Art

This week’s talk by Jennifer on the Golden Age of Dutch Art concentrated on the works of Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Rembrandt is accredited with produce more than 300 paintings in his life time from 1606 to 1669, but more than 40 of them are self portraits. In addition there are many etchings and drawings,…

As with last week, this week’s examination of the Golden Age of Dutch Art, with Jennifer, had moved indoors to examine how the home, and the people in it are portrayed. But the emphasis this week was on the people – in particular the women, how they dressed (and why) and what happened in the…

This week our examination of the Golden Age of Dutch Art moved indoors to examine how the home, and the people in it are portrayed. We saw the works of Johannes Vermeer, Nicolaes Maes, Pieter de Hooch and Caspar Netscher. With our guide Jennifer, however, these paintings of homes, and the people in the homes,…

Having covered Seascapes and Landscapes over the last couple of weeks, focus moved this week to the Townscape. A packed audience heard our resident expert Jennifer talk about the works of Vermeer, De Witte, Berckheyde, Saenreden, Van der Heyden, Fabritius and Dou. We learned that Vermeer has only 35 paintings to his name of which…

Our course on the Dutch Golden Age of Art continued on Friday 20 January 2023 with a look at Dutch Landscapes. Those that have visited the Netherlands will know that there are limitations to landscape subjects in the country, but that has not limited their artists, some of whom travelled to Germany and Italy to…

On Friday 13 January 2023, we resumed our Art History Programme with more than 40 attendees. This time we will be looking at the Dutch Golden Age, but instead of the usual concentration on individual artists, we will be concentrating on the subjects of the pictures. The first lecture concentrated on the sea – the…