This lavishly illustrated book is an authoritative and perceptive study of Dutch painting from the 17th to 19th centuries. It replaces the classic section on painting in Dutch Art and Architecture: 1600-1800, jointly written by Slive and Jakob Rosenberg in the 1960s. Slive has completely rewritten and expanded the original text, taking into account recent scholarship on Dutch painting as well as new archival finds, technical analyses of paintings made by conservators and scientists, and significant discoveries of pictures. The number of illustrations has increased by more than fifty percent. The result is a book that will immediately establish itself as the new standard work on this great period of painting. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.