Dutch Golden Age painting was the extraordinarily productive tradition of the newly independent Dutch Republic from roughly 1600 to 1680, distinguished from contemporary Catholic Baroque art elsewhere in Europe by its largely Protestant, mercantile market: rather than church or royal commissions, painters sold finished works on an open market to a prosperous urban middle class, producing an unprecedented specialization into genres, still life, landscape, portraiture, genre scenes of everyday life, and history painting. Rembrandt van Rijn dominated portraiture and history painting with his dramatic chiaroscuro, Johannes Vermeer perfected quiet interior genre scenes built on subtle light, and Jacob van Ruisdael and others established landscape as an independent, respected subject. The tradition's technical mastery and its unusually direct, secular relationship between artist and buying public influenced European art history far beyond the Republic's small territory.
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Founded In PlaceThe Dutch Republic (the northern Netherlands) 1 Key PrincipleSpecialization into distinct genres, still life, landscape, portraiture, genre scenes and history painting, produced for an open middle-class art market rather than church or court patronage. 1 Connections
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Rembrandt is the defining Dutch Golden Age artist; the atlas's Dutch Golden Age Painting movement entity is used here for his graphic-art output as well as his painting.
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1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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