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Jan Miense Molenaer Painter of the Dutch Golden Age
by Dennis P. Weller
♦ The first book length treatment devoted to Molenaer and his artistic production. ♦ Includes reproductions of more than forty of Molenaer's paintings in full colour and discusses in detail the inventive character and unique message found in each. ♦ Essays by three scholars of seventeenth-century Dutch painting examine the art and life of Molenaer, his workshop practices and choice of motifs and the comic appeal his compositions held for his contemporary viewers. One of Holland's most innovative painters of the seventeenth century, but long overshadowed by his more famous wife, painter Judith Leyster, Molenaer is a key link between Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Jan Steen. His early work consists of colourful genre paintings, portraits, and portrayals of the playful world of children, followed by a concentration on scenes of peasant life, all displaying an inventive symbolism and humour.Dennis P. Weller is the curator of Northern European Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He also organized the exhibition that coincided with the publication.
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