The seventeenth century in the Netherlands was famously a golden age of painting. This book assembles some two dozen masterworks from the collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, including portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, flower pictures, and cityscapes. Featured artists include Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Peter Paul Rubens, among others. Accompanied by biographical and art historical information, the works invite readers to experience the visual splendor of the age.