Contents: List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Wayne Franits PART 1 The Traditional Genres 1 The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portrait Comes of Age Ann Jensen Adams 2 Still Lively: Recent Scholarship on Still-Life Painting Julie Berger Hochstrasser 3 An Assessment of Recent Scholarship on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Imagery Linda Stone-Ferrier 4 Points of View: Recent Studies on Dutch Landscape Painting Boudewijn Bakker 5 Imagined Spaces: Perspectives on the Study of Church Interiors and Cityscapes Almut Pollmer-Schmidt PART 2 Major Artists, Movements, and Other Media 6 Frans Hals and His Time Christopher D.M. Atkins 7 Rembrandt and His Circle Stephanie S. Dickey 8 The Rules of Art and Rembrandt, 1630-1730 Thijs Weststeijn 9 Johannes Vermeer H. Perry Chapman 10 Dutch Mannerism Gero Seelig 11 The Dutch Encounter with Italy: The State of Research David A. Levine 12 Out of the Shadow of the Golden Age: Recent Scholarly Developments Concerning Dutch Painting of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries Junko Aono 13 Stepping up to the Plate: The State of Research in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints Nadine M. Orenstein 14 Drawn into the Light: The State of Research in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings Judith Noorman 15 Towards a Reassessment of Dutch Seventeenth-Century Sculpture Bieke van der Mark PART 3 Topics of Recent Research 16 Economic Aspects of Dutch Art Claartje Rasterhoff 17 Urban Identity and the Validity of City Schools in Dutch Art John Loughman 18 Dutch Art in Relation to Seventeenth-Century Flemish Art Karolien de Clippel 19 Dutch Art and Artists from a Global Perspective: The State of the Research Rebecca Parker Brienen Selected Bibliography Index >7 Rembrandt and His Circle Stephanie S. Dickey 8 The Rules of Art and Rembrandt, 1630-1730 Thijs Weststeijn 9 Johannes Vermeer H.

Perry Chapman 10 Dutch Mannerism Gero Seelig 11 The Dutch Encounter with Italy: The State of Research David A. Levine 12 Out of the Shadow of the Golden Age: Recent Scholarly Developments Concerning Dutch Painting of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries Junko Aono 13 Stepping up to the Plate: The State of Research in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints Nadine M. Orenstein 14 Drawn into the Light: The State of Research in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings Judith Noorman 15 Towards a Reassessment of Dutch Seventeenth-Century Sculpture Bieke van der Mark PART 3 Topics of Recent Research 16 Economic Aspects of Dutch Art Claartje Rasterhoff 17 Urban Identity and the Validity of City Schools in Dutch Art John Loughman 18 Dutch Art in Relation to Seventeenth-Century Flemish Art Karolien de Clippel 19 Dutch Art and Artists from a Global Perspective: The State of the Research Rebecca Parker Brienen Selected Bibliography IndexResearch 16 Economic Aspects of Dutch Art Claartje Rasterhoff 17 Urban Identity and the Validity of City Schools in Dutch Art John Loughman 18 Dutch Art in Relation to Seventeenth-Century Flemish Art Karolien de Clippel 19 Dutch Art and Artists from a Global Perspective: The State of the Research Rebecca Parker Brienen Selected Bibliography Index.