Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland

ISBN-13: 9780521643290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 320 str.

H. Rodney Nevitt

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… entertaining book …'. Burlington Magazine

Spis treści

Introduction: courtship and the Dutch youth culture; 1. The new garden of love; 2. The morals of love; 3. Rembrandt's hidden lovers; Conclusion: love, death, time.