Remember Rembrandt?
Although it looks like a history painting, this famous work is actually a group portrait
What is 'The Nightwatch'?
Many Dutch painters trained with him in Amsterdam, including Hoogstraten
Who is Rembrandt?
These little views of Haarlem celebrated its economic industries
What are the 'Haarlempjes'?
Rembrandt was such a coveted artist that he allegedly received 100 guilders for a work in this inexpensive medium.
What is etching?
Vermeer's Music Lesson is about more than music, and references this key moment in an upper-class woman's life?
What is 'courtship'?
What is 'impasto'?
Dutch women, if we believe the hype, were enamored with this apparatus that helped keep them warm
A maritime corporation that dominated Dutch trade
What is 'The Dutch East India Company'?
Hoogstraten's paintings often proudly display the medallion bestowed upon him by this monarch.
Who is Ferdinand III?
A term for highly illusionistic paintings that means 'fool the eye'
What is Trompe L'oeil?
Rembrandt loved this technique of carving into a metal plate and leaving the burrs to created a blurred effect
What is "Drypoint"?
This author argues that exoticism is an ingrained part of 17th-c. Dutch identity
Who is Claudia Swan?
This type of lavish still-life often included "exotic" goods
What is a 'pronk'?
Artists like Hoogstraten aligned themselves with these two ancient artists and their competition in illusionism
Who are Zeuxis and Parrhasius?
Some scholars argue that Vermeer used this optical device
What is 'Camera Obscura'?
A type of character study, as with Rembrandt's picture of a Dutch man in oriental costume
What is a 'tronie'?
He authored a well-known treatise on gender ideals and marriage
Jacob Cats
It's a term describing the 17th-century Dutch Republic, now sometimes criticized.
What is 'Golden Age'?
Rembrandt fashioned some self-portraits after this Renaissance artwork, which he saw at auction in Amsterdam.
What is 'Raphael's portrait of Castiglione'?
Hoogstraten's approach to art and optics was very learned, as he shows in this 1678 treatise
What is the Visible World?
According to one source, Rembrandt painted this figure into a client's family portrait, angering them.
What is "his dead monkey"?
This artist was known for his idyllic scenes of Dutch farmers and especially cows
Who is Aelbert Cuyp?
Hochstrasser opens her book by citing this socialist philosopher
Who is Karl Marx?
Vermeer's allegorical scene of painting features this muse of history
Who is Clio?
This British artist argued realism in art history is tied to optical instruments
Who is David Hockney?