Bourgeois Painting

Ruisdael

• Landscape painter
• Ruisdael vs Lorrain
• The Bourgeois village and countryside
  • Quay at Amsterdam
  • The Jewish Cemetery
  • Windmill at Wijk
• Bourgeois focus on value over hue
• Grandeur of God's creation and the insignificance of man as a Protestant aesthetic

Vermeer

• Master of modeling value
  • View of Delft
  • Contrasting plays of light
• The genre painting - a private moment
• Domesticity and other Bourgeois motifs
  • Officer and Laughing Girl
  • Art of Painting
  • The Concert
  • Woman Holding a Balance

Rembrandt

• Bourgeois portrait painting vs aristocratic aesthetics
• Techniques of light over color
• Rembrandt vs. Vermeer
  • Self Portrait
  • Self Portrait
• Corporation and musketeers paintings - group portraits
• Tulp's Anatomy Lesson
• Sortie of Captain Banning
• Religious narratives
• Risen Christ Appears before Mary Magdalen

Hals

• Portrait painter
  • A whimsical style
  • Painterly - an emphasis on the brushstrokes and drawing attention to the paint itself
  • Hals vs Rembrandt
    • The Merry Lute Player
    • The Bohemienne
      

More extensive and full-sized art works may be seen in the Art Gallery

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter