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Table Of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction / Wayne Franits 1 1 On the History of Research Concerning the Interpretation of Dutch Painting / Konrad Renger 9 2 A Seventeenth-Century Theory of Art: Nature and Practice / J. A. Emmens 15 3 Realism and Seeming Realism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting / Eddy De Jongh 21 4 Picturing Dutch Culture / Svetlana Alpers 57 5 Tobacco, Social Deviance, and Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century / Ivan Gaskell 68 6 Didactic and Disguised Meanings? Several Seventeenth-Century Texts on Painting and the Iconological Approach to Dutch Paintings of This Period / Eric J. Sluijter 78 7 Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: A Reassessment of Some Current Hypotheses / Peter Hecht 88 8 Ter Borch’s Ladies in Satin / Alison McNeil Kettering 98 9 Style in Dutch Art / Walter Liedtke 116 10 Naturalism as Convention: Subject, Style, and Artistic Self-Consciousness in Dutch Landscape / Lawrence O. Goedde 129 11 Natural Artifice and Material Values in Dutch Still Life / Celeste Brusati 144 12 The Three-Quarter Length Life-Sized Portrait in Seventeenth-Century Holland: The Cultural Functions of Tranquillitas / Ann Jensen Adams 158 13 How to Sit, Stand, and Walk: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Dutch Paintings and Prints / Herman Roodenburg 175 14 The Space of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting / Elizabeth Alice Honig 186 Notes 201 Bibliography 243 General Bibliography 247 Index.