The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters Moser, Benjamin

Title: The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch MastersAuthor: Moser, BenjaminPublisher: Liveright Publishing CorporationBinding: HardcoverPages: 400Dimensions: 9.31h x 6.16w x 0.74dProduct Weight: 1.9 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9781324092254Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting--casually at first, and then more and more obsessively--the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt--who harbored a startling darkness--and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. And thr