In this handsome catalogue more than 230 painted portraits from the renowned collection of the Mauritshuis are reproduced and described. Besides portraits by th... » 

In this handsome catalogue more than 230 painted portraits from the renowned collection of the Mauritshuis are reproduced and described. Besides portraits by the three great masters of seventeenthcentury Dutch portraiture Rembrandt Hals and Vermeer including worldfamous paintings such as The anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and Girl with a pearl earring many other paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries are presented. They include masterpieves by Flemish masters such as Van Dyck and Rubens and even some rare portraits by Holbein and Memling. In the first part of this large and attractively designed catalogue 60 portraits are discusses in great detail while the second part contains concise entries of over 170 other paintings. The introductory essay discusses the genesis of this fascinating collection and points out relationships between a number of the portraits it contains. «