Author: Kolfin, Elmer:
Title: The young gentry at play. Northern Netherlandish scenes of merry companies, 1610-1645.
Description: 2005, 312 pp. English text., 192 ills. In b/w, 14 ills. In colour, paperback. ¶ In the first half of the seventeenth century paintings of the rich and elegantly dressed urban young amusing themselves with courtship, music-making, drinking wine and playing tric-trac became extremely popular. This richly illustrated book examines the background of that popularity by combining iconographical research with the study of pictorial traditions, painting techniques, socio-economics, literature and book illustrations. The first part traces the sixteenth-century pictorial traditions that featured moralistic, idealistic and humorous variants of the merry company, mainly in prints. The second part shows that the seventeenth-century painters made deliberate iconographical and compositional changes to those traditions and developed new painting techniques and marketing strategies. The various meanings the paintings may have had for a contemporary audience is explored in the last part.
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Title: The young gentry at play. Northern Netherlandish scenes of merry companies, 1610-1645.
Description: 2005, 312 pp. English text., 192 ills. In b/w, 14 ills. In colour, paperback. ¶ In the first half of the seventeenth century paintings of the rich and elegantly dressed urban young amusing themselves with courtship, music-making, drinking wine and playing tric-trac became extremely popular. This richly illustrated book examines the background of that popularity by combining iconographical research with the study of pictorial traditions, painting techniques, socio-economics, literature and book illustrations. The first part traces the sixteenth-century pictorial traditions that featured moralistic, idealistic and humorous variants of the merry company, mainly in prints. The second part shows that the seventeenth-century painters made deliberate iconographical and compositional changes to those traditions and developed new painting techniques and marketing strategies. The various meanings the paintings may have had for a contemporary audience is explored in the last part.
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Price: EUR 34.50 = appr. US$ 37.50 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 6526
- Book number: 6526
See more books from our catalog: Schilderkunst - Nederlands & Vlaams / Painting - Dutch & Flemish