Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum, 1400-1600

Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum, 1400-1600

Author: Henk Van Os

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780300087468

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The period from 1400 to 1600 was a fascinating one in Netherlandish art and history, encompassing the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Iconoclasm, the Dutch Revolt, and the northern cities' conversion to the Protestant faith, which put an end to the previously close ties between north and south. This handsome book presents an overview of the period by means of a selection of one hundred works of art in different media taken from the unparalleled collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Eminent authorities place these works in their historical context and discuss their origins, significance, and distinguishing features. The result is an authoritative history of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Netherlandish art. The book is arranged chronologically in three sections, each opening with a brief introduction that sketches the historical and art-historical outlines of the period and each including reproductions and discussions of the works of art. In addition, longer essays in the beginning of the book address such issues as how the function and meaning of works of art change when they become part of a museum; how the picture of Netherlandish art presented by the Rijksmuseum has evolved over the two centuries of its existence; how the works of art came into being; and how and for whom they were made and traded. Although the book focuses on works from the Rijksmuseum, it includes illustrations of key works from other sources as well. This book is the first in a four-part series about Dutch art that will be invaluable for visitors to the Rijksmuseum and for art lovers everywhere.


Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum: 1700-1800

Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum: 1700-1800

Author: Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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This book offers a unique overview of Dutch 18th century art, drawing on the vast collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The art production of this period is demonstrated through art works of both well-known and lesser-known artists including Cornelis Troost, Nicolaas Verkolje, Willem van Mieris, Jan Baptist Xavery, Jacob van Strij and many others. It also examines the flourishing artisan trade in the form of furniture, silver, sculptures and faience from the factories in Delft and Weesp. This edition moreover provides information on the historical context, the world of the artist, the art collectors and the costumes of the 18th century."


Flemish and Dutch Artists in Early Modern England

Flemish and Dutch Artists in Early Modern England

Author: MaryBryanH. Curd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1351566989

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By examining their production practices in a variety of genres?including manuscript illustration, glass painting and staining, tapestry manufacture, portrait painting, and engraving?this book explores how Netherlandish artists migrating to England in the early modern period overcame difficulties raised by their outsider status. This study examines, for the first time in this context, the challenges of alien status to artistic production and the effectiveness of cooperation as a countermeasure. The author demonstrates that collaboration was chief among the strategies that these foreigners chose to secure a position in London's changing art market. Curd's exploration of these collaborations primarily follows Pierre Bourdieu's model of "establishment and challenger" in which dominance in a field of cultural production depends upon how much cultural, political, and economic capital can be accumulated and the effectiveness of the strategies used to confront competition. The analysis presented here challenges received opinion that a collaborative work is only a joint effort of artists working together on a single monument by demonstrating that the participation of patrons and middlemen can also shape the final appearance of a work of art. Furthermore, this book shows that the strategic use of collaboration served the goal of competition by helping to establish foreign artists in the London art market and suggests that their coping strategies have implications for the study of immigrant behaviors today.


Netherlandish Sculpture 1450-1550

Netherlandish Sculpture 1450-1550

Author: Paul Williamson

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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One of the very few books available on this subject in English, this volume presents a selection of the best and most representative works from the Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive collection of late-medieval Netherlandish sculpture. Ranging from small, single figures and devotional altar carvings to full-scale altarpieces, the book looks not only at these fine sculptures themselves but at their social and artistic context as well. The result is a splendidly illustrated general introduction to the subject, accessible to all those interested in medieval art as well as to students and scholars.


Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts

Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts

Author: Kathryn M. Rudy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9004326960

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What role did images play in the mania for indulgences during the decades prior to the Protestant Reformation? Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts considers how indulgences (the remission of time in Purgatory) were used to market certain images. Conversely, images helped to spread indulgences, such as those attached to the Virgin in sole and the Mass of St Gregory. Images also began depicting the effects of indulgences: souls escaping Purgatory. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, Kathryn M. Rudy demonstrates how rubrics modified behaviour and expectations around image-centred devotion. Her work is the first to analyse systematically the way that indulgences and images interacted – indeed, shaped each other – prior to the Reformation.


The Body of the Artisan

The Body of the Artisan

Author: Pamela H. Smith

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0226764265

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Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.


Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

Author: Larry Silver

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-01-04

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0812222113

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Larry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles.


Seven Painters Who Changed the Course of Art History

Seven Painters Who Changed the Course of Art History

Author: Brian Thom McQuade Ma.

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1477227415

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This is the biography of 7 painters who, from the 14th to the 19th century changed the history of art forever. The book is not just about their painting but also tells about their lives, their triumphs and their disasters.