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    The best books on Rembrandt, recommended by Onno Blom

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    The best books on Rembrandt - Rembrandt: The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering

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    Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
    by Ernst van de Wetering

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    The best books on Rembrandt - Rembrandt's Universe: His Art, His Life, His World by Gary Schwartz

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    Rembrandt's Universe: His Art, His Life, His World
    by Gary Schwartz

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    The best books on Rembrandt - Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama

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    Rembrandt's Eyes
    by Simon Schama

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    The best books on Rembrandt - The Painter and the Girl by Margriet de Moor

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    The Painter and the Girl
    by Margriet de Moor

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    The best books on Rembrandt - Rembrandt: the Complete Drawings & Etchings by Peter Schatborn

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    Rembrandt: the Complete Drawings & Etchings
    by Peter Schatborn

The best books on Rembrandt, recommended by Onno Blom

Though he left more self-portraits to posterity than practically any Old Master, there remains an air of mystery around Rembrandt the man—even on the 350th anniversary of his death. Piecing together the very few personal letters and documents left behind, Onno Blom has now reconstructed Rembrandt’s formative years in Young Rembrandt. Here he guides us through five of the most authoritative—and imaginative—accounts of the artist.

    The best books on The Dutch Masters, recommended by Adam Eaker

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    The best books on The Dutch Masters - Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty

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    Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
    by Mark Doty

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    The best books on The Dutch Masters - The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama

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    The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
    by Simon Schama

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    The best books on The Dutch Masters - Vermeer by Lawrence Gowing

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    Vermeer
    by Lawrence Gowing

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    The best books on The Dutch Masters - Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market by Svetlana Alpers

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    Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
    by Svetlana Alpers

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    The best books on The Dutch Masters - Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

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    Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel
    by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

The best books on The Dutch Masters, recommended by Adam Eaker

The past may be a foreign country, but the world portrayed in the art of the Dutch Masters is not so very far from our own, says Adam Eaker of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. For a society that struggles with materialism and consumption, there are a lot of lessons to be learnt from the 17th century Golden Age.

    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness), recommended by Ellen de Bruin

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

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    French Women Don’t Get Fat
    by Mireille Guiliano

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - Women and the Birth of Capitalism in Western Europe by Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

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    Women and the Birth of Capitalism in Western Europe
    by Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - On Blondes by Joanna Pitman

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    On Blondes
    by Joanna Pitman

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - The Encyclopedia of Stupidity by Matthijs van Boxsel

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    The Encyclopedia of Stupidity
    by Matthijs van Boxsel

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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    Freedom
    by Jonathan Franzen

The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness), recommended by Ellen de Bruin

The Dutch science journalist takes a light-hearted look at national stereotypes: why Dutch women are happy, and what it means to be blonde. She picks the best books on Dutch women.

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