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The Art Of The Dutch Republic 1585 1718
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Book Synopsis The Art of the Dutch Republic, 1585-1718 by : Mariët Westermann
Download or read book The Art of the Dutch Republic, 1585-1718 written by Mariët Westermann and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The art of the Dutch republic in the seventeenth century includes some of the most familiar and best-loved examples of European painting: exquisite still-life studies, tranquil interiors, robust portraits and rowdy tavern scenes. In this account, Mariet Westermann describes this art as it was experienced by the people of the period and as it appears to us today. She examines the major themes of Dutch art, including the growth and expression of national identity, the celebration and examination of the individual through portraiture, and the changing status of artists themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis A Worldly Art by : Mariët Westermann
Download or read book A Worldly Art written by Mariët Westermann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (originally published in 1996) examines the country's rich artistic culture in the seventeenth century, providing a full account of Dutch artists and patrons; artistic themes and techniques; and the political and social world in which artists worked. Distinguished art historian Mariët Westermann examines the ?worldly art” of this time in the context of the unique society that produced it, analyzing artists' choices and demonstrating how their pictures tell particular stories about the Dutch Republic, its people, and its past. More than 100 color illustrations complement this engaging discussion of an extraordinary moment in the history of art.
Book Synopsis Art in History/History in Art by : David Freedberg
Download or read book Art in History/History in Art written by David Freedberg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Book Synopsis Visions of Savage Paradise by : Rebecca Parker Brienen
Download or read book Visions of Savage Paradise written by Rebecca Parker Brienen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.
Book Synopsis Rarities of These Lands by : Claudia Swan
Download or read book Rarities of These Lands written by Claudia Swan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The early years of the seventeenth century saw a great flourishing of Dutch culture. In the arts, this was the era of Vermeer and Rembrandt, as well as the development of a local art market. Commerce extended around the world, with state-sponsored trading companies importing foreign goods. Politically, the Netherlands became the first nation-state in Europe, in 1648. In this book, Claudia Swan considers all these aspects together, examining the material culture of the period-the designed, manufactured, and hand-crafted materials and wares-to show how the Dutch encounter with so-called "exotic" goods played a fundamental role in the country's political formation"--
Book Synopsis The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by : Stijn Bussels
Download or read book The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic written by Stijn Bussels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.
Book Synopsis Painting and publishing as cultural industries by : Claartje Rasterhoff
Download or read book Painting and publishing as cultural industries written by Claartje Rasterhoff and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries, 1580-1800 addresses how a small country like the Dutch Republic could become a major player in the creation of cultural goods during the Golden Age. On the basis of quantitative and qualitative sources from art history and book history, Claartje Rasterhoff traces the evolution of the painting and publishing industries from modest trades to booming industries. Informed by studies on cultural industries, she focuses on the role of industrial organization in shaping patterns of growth and innovation. Much like their present-day counterparts, early modern Dutch cultural industries were spatially concentrated, highly networked, and institutionally embedded. This distinct organizational structure helped to reduce uncertainty in the market and stimulated the commercial and creative potential of painters and publishers, for a century at least. Dutch painters and publishers had catered to their markets so rapidly and in such variety, that the exceptional levels of output, quality, and innovation accomplished during the first half of the seventeenth century could not be sustained. As producers came to face saturated domestic markets, they took to limiting risks and strenghtening their distribution and marketing activities. By introducing the concepts of business cycles and spatial clusters, Rasterhoff offers a novel explanation
Book Synopsis European Drawings 2 by : George R. Goldner
Download or read book European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Republican Alternative by : André Holenstein
Download or read book The Republican Alternative written by André Holenstein and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
Book Synopsis Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being by : Euripides Altintzoglou
Download or read book Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being written by Euripides Altintzoglou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism – the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given that it supplies the fundamental framework for portraiture’s determining problem and justification: the visual construction of the subjectivity of the sitter, which is invariably accounted for as ineffable entity or spirit, that the artist magically captures. Every artist that has engaged with portraiture has had to deal with these issues and, therefore, with the question of being and identity.
Book Synopsis The Visible World by : Thijs Weststeijn
Download or read book The Visible World written by Thijs Weststeijn and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses the contested issue of 'Dutch realism' and its hidden symbolism, as well as Rembrandt's concern with representing emotions in order to involve the spectator. Diverse aspects of imitation and illusion come to the fore, such as the theory behind sketchy or 'rough' brushwork and the active role played by the viewer's imagination. Taking as its starting point discussions in Rembrandt's studio, this unique study provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting.
Book Synopsis Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands by : Judith Pollmann
Download or read book Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands written by Judith Pollmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection of essays examines the link between public opinion and the development of changing 'Netherlandish' identities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Book Synopsis Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities by : Karel Davids
Download or read book Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities written by Karel Davids and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere.
Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to the Netherlands (Travel Guide eBook) by : Rough Guides
Download or read book The Rough Guide to the Netherlands (Travel Guide eBook) written by Rough Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Netherlands with this comprehensive, entertaining, 'tell it like it is' Rough Guide, packed with exhaustive practical information and our experts' honest independent recommendations. Whether you plan to immerse yourself in Amsterdam's art galleries, explore Delft's pretty canals and historic streets or admire the sculptures in Hoge Veluwe National Park, The Rough Guide to The Netherlands will show you the perfect places to explore, sleep, eat, drink and shop along the way. -Detailed regional coverage: provides in-depth practical information for every step of every kind of trip, from intrepid off-the-beaten-track adventures, to chilled-out breaks in popular tourist areas. Regions covered include: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Zuid-Hollandand Utrecht, the north and the Frisian Islands, the eastern Netherlands, and the south and Zeeland. -Honest independent reviews: written with Rough Guides' trademark blend of humour, honesty and expertise, and recommendations you can truly trust, our writers will help you get the most from your trip to the Netherlands. -Meticulous mapping: always full colour, with clear numbered, colour-coded keys. Navigate Zuid-Holland, the eastern Netherlands and many more locations without needing to get online. -Fabulous full-colour photography: features a richness of inspirational colour photography, including picturesque Overijssel and the striking urban landscape of Amsterdam Noord. Things not to miss: Rough Guides' rundown of Amsterdam, the Hague, Haarlem and the Frisian Islands' best sights and top experiences. -Itineraries: carefully planned routes will help you organise your trip, and inspire and inform your on-the-road experiences. Basics section: packed with essential pre-departure information including getting there, getting around, accommodation, food and drink, health, the media, festivals, sports and outdoor activities, culture and etiquette, shopping and more. Background information: comprehensive Contexts chapter provides fascinating insights into the Netherlands, with coverage of history, religion, ethnic groups, environment, wildlife and books, plus a handy language section and glossary. About Rough Guides: Rough Guides have been inspiring travellers for over 35 years, with over 30 million copies sold. Synonymous with practical travel tips, quality writing and a trustworthy 'tell it like it is' ethos, the Rough Guides' list includes more than 260 travel guides to 120+ destinations, gift-books and phrasebooks.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age by : Helmer J. Helmers
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age written by Helmer J. Helmers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to the Netherlands by : Rough Guides
Download or read book The Rough Guide to the Netherlands written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to the Netherlands is the definitive guide to everything this small country manages to pack in, from canalside strolls to world-class museums, deserted sandy beaches to all-night clubs. This seventh edition of The Rough Guide to the Netherlands features stunning colour photos of every region and full-colour maps, as well as extended sections on van Gogh, Vermeer and Rembrandt, plus cycling routes across the flattest country in Europe. You'll find itineraries to help with planning, insider tips on where the locals spend their time, as well as advice on how to make your money go further. Get the most out of Amsterdam with up-to-date information on everything from its magnificent museums and iconic Golden Age architecture to the best restaurants and bars of this buzzing, style-conscious capital; while away your hours on the blustery beaches of the country's northern islands; or tuck into Maastricht's delicious regional dishes. At every step, The Rough Guide to the Netherlands picks out the best hotels, cafés and restaurants, giving you clear, balanced reviews and honest, first-hand opinions. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to the Netherlands.
Book Synopsis Fictions of the Pose by : Harry Berger
Download or read book Fictions of the Pose written by Harry Berger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color.