Talk:Dutch Golden Age painting

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A fact from Dutch Golden Age painting appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 February 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that, for the Dutch Old Masters, still lifes were a great opportunity to show one's aptitude in painting textures and surfaces in great detail and with realistic light effects? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/February.

A fact from Dutch Golden Age painting appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 September 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that in Dutch Golden Age painting a lute (example pictured), stocking or bird may represent a visual sexual pun? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/September.

I have created this article from Dutch Golden Age because the "Painting" section was becoming a very big part of that article. I have not changed much yet and have not removed the information from the main article. I am also not happy with the introduction :-) Help is welcome. Piet 14:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In analogy of Early Netherlands painting and List of Belgian painters maybe this should have been Dutch Golden Age painting. Anyone know the rules? Piet 16:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A disambiguation page might be needed, because this is a redirect from "Dutch Masters", a popular brand of cigars.

I put a link to the cigars on this page, but I really think this article needs to be titled something slightly different. On a related note, does anyone know the title of the painting Dutch Masters cigars use on the front of the package? I'm assuming it comes from this area. Squad51 22:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

John bod 18:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not exited about the idea comparing musical instruments with sexual organs, it is very Freudian, and probably sexist and old-fashioned. I would like to see more attention to the seven Liberal arts, but I cannot find references.Taksen (talk) 10:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This would be covered under Hierarchy of genres etc. Johnbod (talk) 13:31, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely no painting of Rembrandt is featured in this article, his name is however. Rembrandt can be considered to be one of the best known painters of this era. --DrJos (talk) 10:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You don't say! Time to give the other guys a chance, I thought. Johnbod (talk) 11:52, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alpers (a very well respeced art historian, and an expert on Dutch painting) suggests that the moralistic messages read into Dutch still life paintings were never seen or looked for by contemporaries, neither were they intended by the artists. Morals are read into the paintings by viewers holding the assumptions of the Italian Renaissance. See 'The Art of Describing', by Alpers.

I am not endorsing the above, as I just don't know about it, but we do have an article on Svetlana Alpers, author of "The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century". Bus stop (talk) 11:53, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As the article says, this is a matter of dispute. As it does not say, Alpers is at one extreme & other experts can be pretty rude about her views on this. She is not exactly a DGA specialist; her other books are on a variety of topics & periods within art history. Johnbod (talk) 14:39, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]