An interdisciplinary study of the central role that the neighborhood played in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and culture
“A work of impressive research and important insight that offers a new and valuable lens through which to understand seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings.”—Alison M. Kettering, Carleton College
“By highlighting the role of the neighborhood—the most local of communities—in structuring early modern Dutch life and values, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of both seventeenth-century Dutch paintings and the culture that produced them.”—H. Perry Chapman, University of Delaware
Linda Stone-Ferrier is professor of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas.