Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt

An independent art historian introduces you to the creative and talented people who made the art of Holland so special.

• By This Expert
• 01: Art and Society in 16th-Century Netherlands
• 02: The Years of Crisis in the Netherlands
• 03: Art in Haarlem and Utrecht, c. 1530–1625
• 04: Facing the Truth—Candid Portraits
• 05: Dutch Portraits, c. 1635–75
• 06: Frans Hals—The Early Years
• 07: Frans Hals—Civic Group Portraits
• 08: Frans Hals—Later Portraits
• 09: Town and City
• 10: Daily Life in the Town
• 11: Daily Life in the Home
• 12: Music and the Studio
• 13: Jan Steen—Order and Disorder in Dutch Life
• 14: Pieter de Hooch and Quietude
• 15: Art in Delft
• 16: Johannes Vermeer, c. 1655–60
• 17: Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660–65
• 18: Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665–70
• 19: Still-Life Painting, c. 1620–54
• 20: Still-Life Painting, c. 1652–82
• 21: Landscape Painting—The Early Decades
• 22: Landscapes of Jan van Goyen and Rembrandt
• 23: Foreign Landscapes
• 24: Landscape Painting in the 1640s and 1650s
• 25: Jacob van Ruisdael
• 26: Dutch Landscape Painting until 1689
• 27: Marine Painting
• 28: The Moral of the Story—History Painting
• 29: The Decoration of the Amsterdam Town Hall
• 30: Rembrandt to 1630
• 31: Rembrandt in Amsterdam, 1631–34
• 32: Rembrandt and the Baroque Style
• 33: Rembrandt's Personal Baroque Style
• 34: Rembrandt's Etchings
• 35: Rembrandt in the 1650s
• 36: Rembrandt's Last Years