INTRODUCTION

Introduction
Jan de Vries

Art in History
Gary Schwartz

History in Art
J. W. Smit

ART AND REALITY

Market Scenes as Viewed by an Art Historian
Linda Stone-Ferrier

Market Scenes as Viewed by a Plant Biologist
Willem A. Brandenburg

Marine Paintings and the History of Shipbuilding
Richard W. Unger

Skies and Reality in Dutch Landscape
John Walsh

Some Notes on Interpretation
E. De Jongh

Are These Girls Really So Neat? On Kitchen Scenes
and Method
Jochen Becker

Didactic and Disguised Meanings: Several Seventeenth
-Century Texts on Painting and the Iconological Approach to
Northern Dutch Paintings of This Period
Eric J. Sluijter

The Changing Face of Realism
Lyckle de Vries

ART, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY

Art History
Jan de Vries

The Volume and Value of Paintings in Holland at the
Time of the Dutch Republic
Ad van der Woude

An Analysis of Subjects and Attributions of Works of
Art in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Inventories
John Michael Montias

CONCLUSION

Science, Commerce, and Art: Neglected Topics at the
Junction of History and Art History
David Freedberg