A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718Newly 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION An Invitation to Look | 7 |
ONE Making and Marketing Pictures in the Dutch Republic | 17 |
Seventeenthcentury Amsterdam | 29 |
TWO Texts and Images | 47 |
Iconoclasm and the Privileged Word 47 Words into Pictures | 53 |
Painters and the Genres of Literature and Art | 60 |
THREE Virtual Realities | 71 |
Realist Strategies 71 Art Science and Illusionism | 82 |
Global Dutch Economy 112 Moral Economies at Home | 116 |
FIVE Portraiture and the Identity of Self and Community | 131 |
Gender Love and Status 132 Professional and Civic Identity | 141 |
Ironies of Portraiture 150 Architecture of Community | 151 |
SIX Artistic Authority | 157 |
Prints | 172 |
TIMELINE | 182 |
PICTURE CREDITS | 188 |
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Adriaen Amsterdam town aristocratic Bosschaert burghers Calvinist Catholic century Church Claes Jansz classical collectors colored comic contemporary Delft Dou's drawing Dutch artists Dutch paintings Dutch Republic emblem engraving etching Frans Hals Frederik Hendrik genre paintings Gerard Gerard Dou Goltzius guild Haarlem Hague Hendrick Hendrick de Keyser history painting ideal identity images interior Italian Jacques de Gheyn Jan Miense Molenaer Jan Steen Johan JOHANNES VERMEER landscape Lastman Leiden lifelike London look Mander marriage Maurits Mieris militia motif Museum of Art Netherlandish Netherlands Nightwatch numerous Oil on canvas Oil on panel painters pastoral patrons peasants pictorial Pieter Pieter Saenredam poem political portraits portraiture printmakers prints production provinces realist regents Rembrandt representation represented Rijksmuseum Saenredam Samuel van Hoogstraten scenes sculpture self-portrait seventeenth sitters social Stadhouder Stadhouder's States-General studio style suggest techniques texts themes tion trade treatise Utrecht Venne Venne's Vermeer viewer Willem woman women
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