Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt DVD [Tutorial]

Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt DVD [Tutorial] | 9,8 GB
Lecturer: William Kloss | 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture | $374.95

Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt will introduce you to the art of 17th-century Holland. It traces the development of this renowned, independent school of painting, and the great seafaring nation that produced the new society that would be reflected in that new art. The course concludes with the achievements of Holland's greatest and most versatile genius, Rembrandt, whose range of work—including his remarkable etchings—claims the final seven lectures. Your introduction to this marvelous world is a visually sumptuous one, as Professor William Kloss—well known to Teaching Company customers from his A History of European Art and Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance—shows you the work of more than 100 artists and guides you through more than 450 masterful paintings. Download the files immediately before they delete again the files.

How Deep Meaning Can Hide in the Tiniest Detail

Painting by painting, you'll see how each artist's technical choices—about composition, lighting, color, or brushstrokes, to name a few—contribute to a work's overall impact and statement. And you'll see how even the smallest detail of content can speak volumes. For instance, the artist may depict a room and include a painting hanging on a wall within that room, and that painting within the painting may have significant meaning. The same may be true of an artist's choice of background props or secondary figures in the painting.

In Adriaen van Ostade's stunning ink-and-watercolor Peasants Playing Gallet Outside an Inn, for example, the Haarlem artist's beautifully wrought images of rural peasant camaraderie, though presented with no small amount of affection, may also contain moral comments about the idleness many Dutch people would have seen in such activity. The man smoking a pipe in the foreground was an accepted symbol of laziness, and a scythe—an instrument of the harvest—remains pointedly unused, hanging from a post above the smoker's head.

Throughout the lectures, Professor Kloss shows how such details serve to open windows into the many aspects of Dutch society that gave its artists inspiration and themes, and that create the context for the course.

Dutch artists created paintings that offered insights into history and commerce. They also created great religious works that not only interpret biblical narratives but also address the spiritual conflicts of the period. Holland had a Jewish émigré community, small but vibrant, and the Dutch saw in Jewish history a parallel to their recent struggles; thus there existed a degree of tolerance perhaps unique in all of Europe. Finally, Dutch artists also placed on canvas every facet of daily domestic and social life in "genre" paintings, one of the most characteristic categories of Dutch art.

Whether you're new to art or an experienced museumgoer, Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt is a delight, filled with insights into the explosive inventiveness of Dutch art as it interpreted and reinvented the reality of Holland—the most dynamic nation in 17th-century Europe.

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