"About half of the articles was initially presented at a conference organized at the Frans Halsmuseum in Haarlem in June 2019"--Page 14. Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-389) and index.
Contents:
Defining Genres -- The So-Called Hierarchy of Genres in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art Theory / Jan Blanc -- Spotting Specialists: A Digital Approach to Contemporary Concepts of Genre and Specialisation / Weixuan Li -- The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portrait: An Unstable Genre / Ann Jensen Adams -- Bambocciata: Investigating a `Would-Be Genre' / Suzanne Baverez -- From Genre Scenes a Vantique to genre serieux: The Contribution of Gerard de Lairesse / Tijana Zakula -- Definition through Appreciation: The Corporate Group Portrait from the Seventeenth until the Twenty-First Century / Norbert E. Middelkoop -- Artists and Genres -- Guns and Roses: Versatility and Variety in the Oeuvre of Jacques de Gheyn / Susanne Bartels -- Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Sottobosco Paintings: A Hybrid Subject as a Form of Automimesis / V.E. Mandrij -- Rembrandt as Genre and History Painter: Picturing Pain / Stephanie S. Dickey -- Defining the Hybrid Genre in the Context of Saenredam's Perspectives / Helen Hillyard -- The `Little Street': Vermeer's Writing on the Wall / Reindert Falkenburg -- The Market and Society -- The Dominance of History Painting: Social Class and Subject Matter of Paintings in Amsterdam, 1650 -- 1700 / Angela Jager -- Rethinking Swanenburg: The Rise and Fortune of New Iconographies of the `Hell' in Italy and the Northern Netherlands / Tania De Nile -- La scene de corps de garde comme autorepresentation / Leonard Pouy -- Honour and Shame in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art and Culture / Wayne Franits.
Summary:
"Church interiors, cortegaerdjes,scenes of everyday life, tronies, landscapes, spoockerijen, group portraits, bambocciate, hunting scenes, history paintings, sottoboschi, still lives and many other subjects: the wide variety of pictorial genres and sub-genres in which Dutch artists specialized is a key component in our perception of Dutch seventeenth-century art. Yet the epistemological framework constituted by genre definitions, conventions and hierarchies is far from self-evident, nor does it necessarily reflect how people in the seventeenth-century thought about artworks. In fact, art literature of the period is largely silent on these matters and artists do not appear to have followed an established set of principles.This volume examines the way pictorial genres can be, and have been, defined by artists, theorists, audiences and art historians; how individual artists conceived the subject matter of their artworks; and how society and the art market contributed to the development of certain subjects. As such, it embraces the complex and often messy reality of pictorial genres in seventeenth-century Dutch art." -- Back cover.
Series:
Gouden Eeuw : new perspectives on Dutch seventeenth-century art ; Volume II
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