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| | Amazon.com: Jan Steen : Painter and Storyteller: Books: H. Perry Chapman,Wouter Th. Kloek,Arthur K. Wheelock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The show collects 130 landscapes by plein air painters like Carl Blechen, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Thomas Jones and, of course, Corot, all of whom worked in southern Italy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. |
 | | While the extroverted comic vitality that marks the painting of Jan Steen will not engender the hymnal praise evoked by the National Gallery's recent exhibition of Jan Vermeer's art, this important catalog proffers another splendid yet very different vision of Dutch Catholic pictorial genius in the 17th century. |
 | | The more traditional essays offer a documentary reconstruction of the artist's life, stylistic development, and working methods, while others more provocatively attempt to offer deeper insight into the artist's persona, the problems of interpreting the paintings, and their relationship to a literary and social milieu. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300067933?v=glance (1030 words) |
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