The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters

The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters

A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.

Arriving as a …

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