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Machine generated contents note: ch. I H̀ere is the stock exchange and the money, and the love of art' -- An introduction to the Golden Age of Amsterdam and its history painting -- Amsterdam, centre of the world -- centre of painting -- Amsterdam, the new centre for history painting -- Clustering --...

Contents note continued: An entirely different type of painter -- Sandrart on Rembrandt and different notions about the nobility of art -- Sandrarr's art: as different as possible -- Competition in the Kloveniersdoelen -- ch. II, Part B Flinck, Backer and Breenbergh -- Govert Flinck (1615--1660): fr...

Contents note continued: ch. III A network of moderately successful Amsterdam natives / Salomon Koninck -- Claes Cornelisz Moyaert (c. 1591--1655): his most productive period, c. 1630--1655 -- An Amsterdam native of an older generation specializing in L̀astman lite' -- Sticking to his own type of pa...

Contents note continued: Impressed by Rembrandt's early manner and successful with elite connoisseurs -- Defining his position in relation to the celebrated master -- A valued artist -- ch. IV Of modest masters and cheap production / Jan Micker -- David Colijns (1581/1582--1665): his career as a his...

Contents note continued: Jan Micker (1598/1599--1664): active c. 1630--1655 (?) -- Art dealers and the cheap mass production of history paintings -- Simple in manner and composition, sometimes original in subjects, but never imitating others -- Minor masters of whom we know almost nothing -- Guillia...

Contents note continued: A surprisingly novel style with the support of old prints -- Dirck Dircksz Santvoort (1609-1680): history paintings from the 1630s -- From a well-to-do family of artists -- Rembrandt's early manner in a simplified version -- Pieter Codde (1599--1678): history paintings c. 16...

Contents note continued: Gerrit Willemsz Horst (c. 1612/1613--1652): active in the 1630s and 1640s -- A mediocre follower of the early Flinck and Bol -- ch. VII A younger generation of talented artists starting out around 1640 / Jan Lievens -- Ferdinand Bol (1616--1680): his early career, c. 1640--1...

Contents note continued: Jacob van Loo (1614--1670): the mystery of his early oeuvre -- Jan Lievens (1607--1674): boundless ambition and serious shortcomings -- ch. VIII Summarizing epilogue -- About the painters and their pursuits -- Some remarks on subject matter -- Price levels -- To conclude.