The first major book-length study of the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout examining his fascinating works of art. 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 …
Overzicht van de geschiedenis van de luit in Nederland gedurende de Gouden Eeuw
Overzicht van de geschiedenis van de luit in Nederland gedurende de Gouden Eeuw.
Closely associated with the social elite, the lute occupied a central place in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of the instrument's role in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Jan W.J. Burgers explores how it functioned as the universal means o…
"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 …
Essays over de Dordts/Amsterdamse schilder (een van de bekendste leerlingen van Rembrandt), schrijver en kunstheoreticus, en zijn glanzende internationale carrière.
Over de waardering voor Rembrandt in het 19de-eeuwse Frankrijk Voor veel negentiende-eeuwse Franse kunstenaars, schrijvers en verzamelaars had de naam Rembrandt een magische klank. Kunstenaars en critici beschouwden zijn werk en artistieke persoonlijkheid als maatgevend en gebru…
Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life. The book begins …
"Unlike Bosch's better-known, fantastical, 'proto-surrealist' paintings, Christ Mocked is small, still and sombre, and yet, with a little effort of knowledge and interpretation, it reveals a depth of understanding of both the Passion, and of human nature, that speaks as much to …
Unlike Bosch's better-known, fantastical, 'proto-surrealist' paintings, Christ Mocked is small, still and sombre, and yet, with a little effort of knowledge and interpretation, it reveals a depth of understanding of both the Passion, and of human nature, that speaks as much to t…
