内容简介

Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (originally published in 1996) examines the country's rich artistic culture in the seventeenth century, providing a full account of Dutch artists and patrons; artistic themes and techniques; and the political and social world in which artists worked. Distinguished art historian Mariet Westermann examines the 'worldly art' of this time in the context of the unique society that produced it, analyzing artists' choices and demonstrating how their pictures tell particular stories about the Dutch Republic, its people, and its past. More than 100 colour illustrations complement this engaging discussion of an extraordinary moment in the history of art.

作品目录

INTRODUCTION: An Invitation to Look

Map: The Dutch Republic

Interpretive Possibilities: In Luxury, Look Out

ONE: Making and Marketing Pictures in the Dutch Republic

Training Artists, Making Pictures

Map: Seventeenth-century Amsterdam

Marketing, Buying, and Collecting Art

TWO: Texts and Images

Iconoclasm and the Privileged Word

Words into Pictures

Painters and the Genres of Literature and Art

THREE: Virtual Realities

Realist Strategies

Art, Science, and Illusionism

FOUR: Dutch Ideologies and Nascent National Identity

Fragments of National History

The Dutch Scene

Global Dutch Economy

Moral Economies at Home

FIVE: Portraiture and the Identity of Self and Community

Gender, Love, and Status

Professional and Civic Identity

Identities Preserved: Ironies of Portraiture

Architecture of Community

SIX: Artistic Authority

Representing Selves

Figuring Art

Reproducible Individuality: Prints

TIMELINE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PICTURE CREDITS

INDEX