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Adriaan Waiboer: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry [2017] hardback MYTHS respected by everybody in theA landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity of these works, as this book demonstrates, was achieved in part thanks to a vibrant artistic rivalry among numerous first rate genre painters working in different cities across the Dutch Republic. They drew