Genres
Architectural painting
Giltaij, Jeroen and Guido Jansen, Perspectiven: Saenredam en de architectuurschilders van de 17e eeuw, exhib.cat. Rotterdam (Museum Boymans-van Beuningen) 1991.
Liedtke, Walter A., Architectural painting in Delft, Doornspijk 1982.
Genre
Franits, Wayne, Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting: its thematic and stylistic evolution, New Haven 2004.
Giltaij, Jeroen (editor), Senses and sins: Dutch painters of daily life in the seventeenth century, exhib.cat. Rotterdam (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) and Frankfurt am Main (Städelsches Kunstinstitut) 2004-2005, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004. Original Dutch edition: Zinnen en minnen: schilders van het dagelijks leven in de zeventiende eeuw. German edition also published.
Jongh, Eddy de, Tot lering en vermaak: betekenissen van Hollandse genrevoorstellingen uit de zeventiende eeuw, exhib.cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1976.
History painting
Schoon, Peter and Sander Paarlberg (editors), Griekse goden en helden in de tijd van Rubens en Rembrandt, exhib.cat. Athena (Nationale Pinakotheek and The Dutch Institute) and Dordrecht (Dordrechts Museum) 2000-2001. English edition: Athens 2001.
Tümpel, Christian, Het Oude Testament in de schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw, exhib.cat. Amsterdam (Joods Historisch Museum) 1991 etc., Zwolle 1991.
Italianate painters
Blankert, Albert, Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende landschapschilders, revised edition, Soest 1978. First edition: Utrecht 1965.
Devisscher, Hans (editor), Fiamminghi a Roma, 1508-1608: kunstenaars uit de Nederlanden en het Prinsdom Luik te Rome tijdens de Renaissance, exhib.cat. Brussels (Paleis voor Schone Kunsten) and Rome (Palazzo delle Esposizioni) 1995.
Harwood, Laurie B., Inspired by Italy: Dutch landscape painting 1600-1700, exhib.cat. London (Dulwich Picture Gallery) 2002.
Landscape
Bol, Laurens Johannes, Holländische Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, nahe den grossen Meistern: Landschaften und Stilleben, Braunschweig 1969.
Boschma, C., J.M. de Groot, G. Jansen and J.W.M. de Jong (editors), F. Grijzenhout (final editor), Meesterlijk vee: Nederlandse veeschilders 1600-1900, Zwolle and The Hague 1988.
Stechow, Wolfgang, Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, London and New York 1966.
Sutton, Peter C., Masters of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, exhib.cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum), Boston (Museum of Fine Arts) and Philadelphia (Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts) 1987-1988, London 1987.
Zwollo, An, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome, 1675-1725, Assen 1973.
Pastoral
Brink, Peter van den and Jos de Meyere (editors), Het gedroomde land: pastorale schilderkunst in de Gouden Eeuw, exhib.cat. Utrecht (Centraal Museum), Frankfurt am Main (Schirn Kunsthalle) and Luxembourg (Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art) 1993-1994.
Kettering, Alison McNeil, The Dutch Arcadia: pastoral art and its audience in the golden age, Montclair, New Jersey 1983.
Portraits and group portraits
Carasso-Kok, Marijke and Koos Levy-van Halm (editors), Schutters in Holland: kracht en zenuwen van de stad, exhib.cat. Haarlem (Frans Halsmuseum), Zwolle 1988.
Ekkart, Rudi, Quentin Buvelot and Marieke de Winkel, Dutch portraits: the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, exhib.cat. London (National Gakllery) and The Hague (Mauritshuis) 2007-2008. Dutch edition: Hollanders in beeld: portretten uit de Gouden Eeuw, Zwolle 2007.
Jongh, Eddy de, Portretten van echt en trouw: huwelijk en gezin in de Nederlandse kunst van de zeventiende eeuw, exhib.cat. Haarlem (Frans Halsmuseum), Zwolle and Haarlem 1986.
Middelkoop, Norbert (editor), Kopstukken: Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800, exhib.cat. Amsterdam (Amsterdams Historisch Museum), Bussum 2002. Includes: Judith van Gent and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, 'Lijst van Amsterdamse portretschilders 1600-1800', pp. 284-289.
Seascape
Bol, L. J., Die holländische Marinemalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Braunschweig 1973.
Giltaij, Jeroen and Jan Kelch, Lof der zeevaart: de Hollandse zeeschilders van de 17e eeuw, exhib.cat. Rotterdam (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) 1996. English edition: Praise of ships and the sea: the Dutch marine painters of the 17th century, Rotterdam and Berlin 1996. German edition also published.
Still life
Gemar-Koeltzsch, Erika, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 1995. 3 vols.
Greindl, Edith, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle, Sterrebeek 1983.
Grimm, Claus, Stilleben: die niederländischen und deutschen Meister, 3rd edition, Stuttgart and Zurich 1997. First edition: 1988.
Hairs, Marie-Louise, with the assistance of Dominique Finet, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1985. 2 vols.
Lewis, Frank, A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish flower, fruit, and still life painters, 15th to 19th century, Leigh-on-Sea 1973.
Segal, Sam, A prosperous past: the sumptuous still life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700, exhib.cat. Delft (Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof), Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fogg Art Museum) and Fort Worth (Kimbell Art Museum), The Hague 1988.
Vroom, Nicolaas Rudolph Alexander, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam 1945. Expanded, 2nd edition: A modest message, as intimated by the painters of the 'monochrome banketje', Schiedam and Cheb 1980-1999. 3 vols.
Willigen, Adriaan van der and Fred G. Meijer, A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003.