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W Books, June 1999. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, there is a half in whole on the back of the jacket . pages and binding are clean, binding a bit cocked but still tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century Hardcover - 1999
by Mariet Westermann
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- Title The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century
- Author Mariet Westermann
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Original Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press, Zwolle
- Date June 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9789040099151 / 9040099154
- Weight 2.95 lbs (1.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9.76 x 7.08 x 1.26 in (24.79 x 17.98 x 3.20 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98143505
- Dewey Decimal Code 759.949
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The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Vol 1)
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THE AMUSEMENTS OF JAN STEEN Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century
by Westermann, Mariet
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Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1997. (NETH) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, tiny bump to top corner of front cover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to gloss of rear panel of Dj. Hardcover, 366pp, index, 187 B&W illus. From the dust jacket: The Dutch painter Jan Steen (1626-1679) has long enjoyed a reputation for his dissolute life, redeemed only by a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries and an exquisite ability to capture his observations in paint. Steen's paintings of unruly households, rambunctious revels, and wily seductresses have come to define our image of the delicious and immoral excesses of the Golden Age. But rather than simply recording the illicit pleasures of Dutch burghers and peasants, Steen transformed them into ambitious genre paintings that rival the peasant epics of Bruegel the Elder and jest with the genteel idylls of Vermeer and Terborch. By placing Steen within Dutch society and culture of the seventeenth century, Mariet Westermann shows…
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