Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

Michael Zell is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University. He is the author of Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (2002), and co-editor of Rethinking Rembrandt (2002) and 'Ut pictura amor': The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 (2017).

• Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. The Gift and Art in Early Modernity, 2. Art as Gift in the Dutch Republic, 3. Rembrandt's Art as Gift, 4. Art and Leisure: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation, 5. For the Love of Art: Vermeer and the Poetics of the Gift,Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.