Rijksmuseum amsterdam (great museums of the world)

In 132 magnificent photographs
all newly taken, all in full color the great display of dutch and flemish art housed in the rijksmuseum amsterdam
With theimpressive wall of the rikamuseum
shines the glorious radiance of the golden Age of dutch and flemish painting. In these pages the reader will discover the freshness and fascination of the greatest masterworks of the period revealed in all their beauty and shown, as in the museum itself, in chronological order and in relation to lesse known works.
Here is the genius of Lucas van Leyden, whose minute observation and linear tension created the adoration of the golden Calf, and the late man neristic sensibility of Jan bruegel’s flower piece.
we see the sweeping brilliance of Frans Hals, master of genre painting, delighting the senses with the lively brushwork and tonality of The Merry Toper and revealing in his companion portraits of Lucas de Clercg and Feyntje van Steenkiste the expressive mobility of his finest style.