The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

斯韦特兰娜•阿尔珀斯（Svetlana Alpers，1936— ），美国著名艺术史家，加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校荣休教授，主要研究荷兰黄金年代的艺术作品。著有《描绘的艺术——17世纪的荷兰艺术》《伦勃朗的企业——工作室与艺术市场》《制造鲁本斯》等，其中《描绘的艺术》获得1983年尤金•凯登最佳图书奖[Eugene M. Kayden Award]。 王晓丹，毕业于中国美术学院，现就职于北京外国语大学中华文化国际传播研究院。译有《电影的历史》《记忆断片——巴克森德尔回忆录》《两难之境——艺术与经济的利害关系》《乔治亚•欧姬芙》《杰克逊•波洛克》《化身博士》《艾米莉的诗样年华》等16本译著；在《新美术》《美术研究》《国际汉学》等学术期刊发表文章若干。

维姆·克罗斯特（Wim Klooster），生于荷兰的格罗宁根，美国克拉克大学历史与国际关系系主任，自2003年以来一直在该校任教。他的研究视角具有比较性，专注于研究15世纪至19世纪大西洋世界的历史、18世纪至19世纪大西洋革命时代的历史，以及荷兰建立海上贸易帝国的历史。著有《大西洋世界的革命》（Revolutions in the Atlantic World）一书。

维姆·克罗斯特（Wim Klooster），生于荷兰的格罗宁根，美国克拉克大学历史与国际关系系主任，自2003年以来一直在该校任教。他的研究视角具有比较性，专注于研究15世纪至19世纪大西洋世界的历史、18世纪至19世纪大西洋革命时代的历史，以及荷兰建立海上贸易帝国的历史。著有《大西洋世界的革命》（Revolutions in the Atlantic World）一书。