| Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland Contributor(s): Nevitt Jr, H. Rodney (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521643295 ISBN-13: 9780521643290 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | European - Art | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 760.094 |
| LCCN: 2002016583 |
| Series: Studies in Netherlandish Visual Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.1" W x 10.2" (1.95 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Benelux |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A series of interconnected essays on love and courtship as themes in Dutch art, this study examines pictorial subjects and artists that have never been considered together: paintings and prints of garden parties by David Vinckboons and Esaias van de Velde, merry companies by Willem Buytewech, paintings of courting couples observing peasant festivities by Jan Miense Molenaer, two portraits by Frans Hals and two important landscape etchings by Rembrandt. Nevitt places these works in the context of the culture of love at the time, which manifested itself in the social practices of courtship and a variety of amatory texts. |