:<i>An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art</i>

Abstract

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I. Karel van Mander: The Language of Space Entrance for the Eyes Images in Conversation Into the Seventeenth Century Ideas of Order II. Gerard Dou: The Reconfigured Emblem Foreground and Background An Art of Surfaces Drape and Curtain The Space of Emblems Uses of the Background Scene Pictures within Pictures An Empty Room III. Nicolaes Maes: Space as Domestic Territory The Eavesdroppers Pictorial Space at Mid-Century Re-creating the Dutch Interior Mistresses and Maids Diligence and Desire IV. Pieter De Hooch: Indoors and Out Figures in a Courtyard Home and Cityscape Masculine and Feminine Spaces Privacy and Community Exchanges at the Doorway Public Interiors Notes Bibliography Index