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Drawings for Paintings: in the Age of Rembrandt by Ger Luijten, Peter Schatborn – review

Drawings for Paintings: in the Age of Rembrandt by Ger Luijten, Peter Schatborn – review

Dutch artists have, for centuries, been admired for the realistic quality of their work. Seventeenth-century landscapes and scenes of ordinary life are all here. One might suppose that the paintings were done directly from life; but it seems that most of them were produced with the aid of previously-executed sketches. Drawings for Paintings: in the…

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