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Author:   Lyckle de Vries
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   309/43
Weight:   0.856kg
ISBN:  

9789004421806

ISBN 10:   9004421807
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   27 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Contents of the Levens-Beschryvingen  2 Weyerman’s Opinions 1 Painted and Written Genre Scenes  1 Urban Genre  2 Low Life Genre  3 Italianate Scenes  4 Large-Scale Genre Paintings  5 Fine Painting 2 Failed Artists  1 Pretentions of Nobility  2 Social Skills  3 Marriage  4 Painterly Studios  5 Intemperance  6 Mental Problems  7 Art Dealers and Their Victims  8 Copying  9 Antwerp’s Vrijdagsmarkt  10 Street Vendors and Itinerant Painters 3 Portraiture  1 London  2 The ‘Byway’ of Art  3 The Sitter’s Identity  4 Good Manners, Flattery and Beauty  5 The Netherlands  6 Other Group Portraits 4 Art in the Public Space  1 Altarpieces  2 Stained Glass Windows  3 Wall Tapestries  4 Princely Commissions  5 Government Commissions  6 Municipal Commissions  7 Festive Entries  8 Private Commissions 5 Art Criticism  1 Choice of Subject Matter  2 Composition  3 Human Figures  4 Pictorial Space  5 Reddering  6 Colouring  7 Handling of the Brush  8 Welstand 6 Pliny, Durand and Weyerman  1 Weyerman’s Ideas in Perspective  2 Beauty  3 Grace  4 Art and Nature  5 The Purpose of Art  6 Classification  7 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix 1: Biography of Willem de Fouchier Appendix 2: Disquisition on the Art of the Ancients Bibliography Index

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The fact remains that, whatever [Weyerman's] motivations, he demonstrated (and de Vries amply acknowledges it) that he had an art critic training, that he mastered a technical vocabulary that deserves to be studied precisely because it is specific to a reality and an era and, in short, that he was a man fully immersed in his time. Probably these findings (and the many references to the situation of the art market in the Netherlands [...] would today satisfy more those who deal with social history of art, rather than history of art in the strict sense; however, they allow us to reconsider the importance of a work that, in Schlosser's time, seemed inevitably destined for oblivion and ignominy. Giovanni Mazzaferro in Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources, August 2020. https://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.com/2020/08/campo-weyerman_30.html#!/2020/08/campo-weyerman_30.html

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Lyckle de Vries (*1937) retired from Groningen University in 2000. Apart from writing monographic studies on 17th-century Dutch artists, he analysed contemporary printed sources on Dutch art and art theory, Gerard de Lairesse (1998, 2011), and Johan van Gool (1990).

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