In her book, the author proposes a look at Dutch painting of the Golden Age through the eyes of contemporary writers. The researcher examines landscapes, genre paintings, still lifes and portraits of both great and small Dutch masters, interpreted in the spirit of 19th-century artistic criticism.
Magdalena S´niedziewska, assistant professor at the Department of Theory of Literature, Institute of Polish Philology, University of Wrocław, is the author of books and articles exploring literature and painting, the reception of Italian literature in Poland, and bird motifs in literature.