A portfolio and critique of paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. "Within the impressive walls of the Rijksmuseum shines the glorious radiance of the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish painting. In these pages the reader will discover the freshness and fascination of the greatest masterworks of the period revealed in all their beauty - and shown, as in the museum itself, in chronological order and in relation to lesser-known works."--Inside book jacket.