pt. 1. Disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Art and society in 16th-century Netherlands --
Years of crisis in the Netherlands --
Art in Haarlem and Utrecht, c. 1530-1625 --
Facing the truth, candid portraits --
Dutch portraits, c. 1635-75 --
Frans Hals, the early years --
pt. 1. Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Frans Hals, civic group portraits --
Frans Hals, later portraits --
Daily life in the town --
Daily life in the home --
pt. 2. Disc 3. Lectures 13-18. Jan Steen, order and disorder in Dutch life --
Pieter de Hooch and quietude --
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1655-1660 --
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660-1665 --
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665-1670 --
pt. 2. Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. Still-life painting, c. 1620-54 --
Still-life painting, c. 1652-82 --
Landscape painting, the early decades --
Landscapes of Jan van Goyen and Rembrandt --
Landscape painting in the 1640s and 1650s.
pt. 3. Disc 5. Lectures 25-30. Jacob van Ruisdael --
Dutch landscape painting until 1689 --
Moral of the story, history painting --
Decoration of the Amsterdam Town Hall --
pt. 3. DIsc 6. Lectures 31-36. Rembrandt in Amsterdam, 1631-34 --
Rembrandt and the Baroque style --
Rembrandt's personal Baroque style --
Rembrandt in the 1650s --
