Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt

📚 Course Lectures

1. Art and Society in 16th-Century Netherlands – Historical background of the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Eighty Years’ War (32 min)

2. The Years of Crisis in the Netherlands – Religious clashes, rebellion, and the art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (29 min)

3. Art in Haarlem and Utrecht, c. 1530–1625 – Works of Cornelis van Haarlem, Goltzius, Bloemaert, Terbrugghen (30 min)

4. Facing the Truth—Candid Portraits – Rise of portraiture in the Dutch Republic (31 min)

5. Dutch Portraits, c. 1635–75 – Gerard ter Borch, Jan de Bray, van der Helst (30 min)

6. Frans Hals—The Early Years – Early single portraits and rare genre scenes (30 min)

7. Frans Hals—Civic Group Portraits – Haarlem’s civic guard paintings (30 min)

8. Frans Hals—Later Portraits – Penetrating characterizations and late style (29 min)

9. Town and City – Genre painting in public urban settings (31 min)

10. Daily Life in the Town – Inns, taverns, shops, brothels; Leyster, Ostade, Berckheyde (30 min)

11. Daily Life in the Home – Domestic interiors and symbolic meanings (29 min)

12. Music and the Studio – Music as a theme in Dutch art (30 min)

13. Jan Steen—Order and Disorder in Dutch Life – Boisterous yet moralizing scenes (31 min)

14. Pieter de Hooch and Quietude – Introspective domestic scenes (31 min)

15. Art in Delft – Delft as Vermeer’s city of art (29 min)

16. Johannes Vermeer, c. 1655–60 – Early works and miraculous light (30 min)

17. Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660–65 – Music, letters, and silent interiors (32 min)

18. Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665–70 – Girl with a Pearl Earring and the camera obscura (29 min)

19. Still-Life Painting, c. 1620–54 – Bosschaert, Claesz, de Heem, Heda (30 min)

20. Still-Life Painting, c. 1652–82 – Banquet pieces, illusionism, Kalf, van Aelst (30 min)

21. Landscape Painting—The Early Decades – The birth of naturalistic landscape (29 min)

22. Landscapes of Jan van Goyen and Rembrandt – Innovations in landscape (31 min)

23. Foreign Landscapes – Exotic and colonial subjects; Post, Everdingen, Both (29 min)

24. Landscape Painting in the 1640s and 1650s – From tonal to colorful style (30 min)

25. Jacob van Ruisdael – The greatest Dutch landscape painter (30 min)

26. Dutch Landscape Painting until 1689 – Ruisdael, Koninck, Hobbema (30 min)

27. Marine Painting – Seascapes, rivers, naval themes (30 min)

28. The Moral of the Story—History Painting – Narrative art from Bible to politics (30 min)

29. The Decoration of the Amsterdam Town Hall – Civic grandeur in art (30 min)

30. Rembrandt to 1630 – Early self-portraits and history paintings (30 min)

31. Rembrandt in Amsterdam, 1631–34 – Saskia portraits and early Amsterdam years (30 min)

32. Rembrandt and the Baroque Style – Dramatic works influenced by Baroque (30 min)

33. Rembrandt’s Personal Baroque Style – Mature style of the 1640s (30 min)

34. Rembrandt’s Etchings – Technical mastery in prints (31 min)

35. Rembrandt in the 1650s – Deeply emotional portraits and religious works (30 min)

36. Rembrandt’s Last Years – Late masterpieces and Dutch art’s lasting legacy (30 min)