Screen LibraryRembrandt's Orient : West meets East in Dutch art of the seventeenth century /
"This book sheds light on the fascinating ways Rembrandt and other Golden Age painters were influenced by Eastern culture. In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of foreign items that powerfu...
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Prestel,
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| Publisher Address: | Munich : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English German |
| Series: |
Museum Barberini publication series
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| Summary: |
"This book sheds light on the fascinating ways Rembrandt and other Golden Age painters were influenced by Eastern culture. In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of foreign items that powerfully stimulated the imagination of numerous Dutch artists. This was notably the case with Rembrandt, whose curiosity and voraciousness as a collector were legendary in his time. Throughout his prolific career, he drew on Eastern influences in genres as diverse as history painting and portraiture, including depictions in which he himself adopted cultural attire. This lavishly illustrated book explores the inventive ways in which Rembrandt and his contemporaries accommodated Eastern imagery into their own repertoire, set within the wider context of Holland's rapidly expanding commercial and cultural exchange with its non-European trading partners. The problematic term "Orient" was widely used in Rembrandt's time and will be discussed at great length in this catalogue"-- |
| Item Description: |
Series information from dust jacket. "Translation of German texts ...: Lance Anderson ..., Catherine Bindman ..., Simon Cowper/Melanie Newton ..., Nicola Morris/Lucy Powell ..., Bronwen Saunders ..."--Page 328. |
| Carrier Form: | 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, facsimiles ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-323). |
| ISBN: |
9783791359632 (hardback) : 3791359630 (hardback) 9783791359625 (German trade edition) 3791359622 (German trade edition) 9783791390567 (German museum edition, Kunstmuseum Basel) 3791390562 (German museum edition, Kunstmuseum Basel) 9783791390086 (German museum edition, Museum Barberini, Potsdam) 3791390082 (German museum edition, Museum Barberini, Potsdam) 9783791390574 (English museum edition, Kunstmuseum Basel) 3791390570 (English museum edition, Kunstmuseum Basel) 9783791390093 (English museum edition, Museum Barberini, Potsdam) 3791390090 (English museum edition, Museum Barberini, Potsdam) |
| Index Number: | ND1460 |
| CLC: | J205.563-28 |
| Call Number: | J205.563-28/R385 |
| Contents: |
Distant inspiration : an introduction to the exhibition / The fascination of the East : trade and art in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century / "The exquisiteness of the goods the Indian gives us" : non-European objects in seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes and interiors / "Utterly artless" or "Exceedingly noble" : Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Convention and uniqueness : Rembrandt's response to the East / The fear of Barbary pirates : privateers and Christian slaves in the seventeenth century / Knowledge from the East : collecting Oriental manuscripts in the Dutch Republic in the age of Rembrandt / Turbans and silk robes : bringing the Orient home -- Paths to prosperity : trade and war -- Understanding the world : collections and research -- The landscape of the Bible : early Rembrandt and his influences -- Light in the temple : Rembrandt in Amersterdam and his followers -- True to life? Or mere convention? -- Familiarizing the exotic : Rembrandt's adaptation of the Orient. |