Gerrit Dou: 90 Masterpieces
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not much of a review. Still learning and tbh I hadn't heard of Dou before. I'm utterly captivated with his work. The blend of light is sensational. Plz enjoy.
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Gerrit Dou: 90 Masterpieces
By Maria Tsaneva
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Copyright © 2014 by Maria Tsaneva
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Gerrit Dou: 90 Masterpieces
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Foreword
Gerrit Dou (1613 – 1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe l'oeil niche
paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro.
Dou was born in Leiden, where his father was a manufacturer of stained-glass. He studied drawing under Bartholomeus Dolendo, and then trained in the stained-glass workshop of Pieter Couwenhorn. In February 1628, at the age of fourteen, his father sent him