Screen LibraryConfronting the Golden Age : imitation and innovation in Dutch genre painting, 1680-1750 /
"Is it possible to talk about Dutch art after 1680 outside the prevailing critical framework of the "age of decline"? Although an increasing number of studies are being published on the art and society of this period, genre painting of this era continues to be dismissed as an uninspir...
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Amsterdam University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam studies in the Dutch Golden Age
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| Summary: |
"Is it possible to talk about Dutch art after 1680 outside the prevailing critical framework of the "age of decline"? Although an increasing number of studies are being published on the art and society of this period, genre painting of this era continues to be dismissed as an uninspired repetition of the art of the second and third quarters of the seventeenth century, known as the Dutch Golden Age. In this stunningly illustrated study, Aono reconsiders the long-dismissed genre painting from 1680-1750. Grounded in close analysis of a range of paintings and primary sources, this study illumina |
| Carrier Form: | 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index. |
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9789089645685 : 9089645683 |
| Index Number: | ND1452 |
| CLC: | J209.563 |
| Call Number: | J209.563/A638 |
| Contents: | Confronting the heritage of the Golden Age: the situation around Dutch genre painting, 1680-1750 -- Reproducing the Golden Age: copies after seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting in the first half of the eighteenth century -- Emulating the Golden Age: the painter's choice of motifs and subject matter in Dutch genre painting of the first half of the eighteenth century -- Ennobling daily life: a question of refinement in early eighteenth-century Dutch genre painting. |