ISBN 978-0-89236-968-3

The volume closes with a chapter highlighting some of the most famous couples of all time

and ways of presenting and interpreting sites for today's visitors

Ulrich Bischoff is director of the Galerie Neue Meister

Jan Steen: The Drawing Lesson CONS ISBN 978-0-89236-968-3John Walsh Clear, solid, palpable, this is the world of the Dutch painters of the seventeenth centurya world in which the surfaces and scenes of everyday life are rendered with impeccable care and illuminated by clear, soft light. Through the countless reproductions of the works of painters like de Hooch and Vermeer, these scenes have become intimately familiar: servants at their kitchen chores; women reading, daydreaming, or playing music; risqu and