10/6/24. The book reviews the development of Dutch art from the foundation of Netherlandish realism in the fifteenth century with the Van Eycks, through the elevated style of Renaissance history painting, the language of symbols of the seventeenth century and the work of its masters, on through the eighteenth and nineteenth century realism, right up to Van Gogh's pioneering Expressionism, and the radical simplification of Mondrian, and the present-day art of Dibbets and Brouwn.