Penguin / 1972 / English / Pdf / ISBN10	0140561277 / 500 pages / 79 MB

Dutch painting of the seventeenth century has such a distinctive character that one  easily overlooks its ties with the Baroque style as an international phenomenon. Yet the moment one thinks of such artists as Rubens and Bernini, Frans Hals and Velazquez, in juxtaposition, one feels a common denominator. Baroque art, however, seems to defy an all-embracing definition. It finds more eloquent expression in the absolutist Catholic countries than in the Protestant Republic of the United Netherlands