Worldly Art, 1585-1718

Arts & Photography

Westermann, Mariët

History & Criticism

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Art of the Dutch Republic (Everyman Art Library)

Orion Publishing Co

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 Mariët 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 color illustrations complement this engaging discussion of an extraordinary moment in the history of art.

A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718

Yale University Press

A survey of the life and times of Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the most famous and well-loved artists. From his precocious early work in his native Leyden to his emotional late work and his immense artistic influence, Rembrandt's life is traced within the context of the Netherlands in the 17th century, the highly literate and cosmopolitan environment of Amsterdam and Rembrandt's wealthy and influential patrons.

Rembrandt A&I (Art and Ideas)

Phaidon Press

Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt

Denver Art Museum

Sound, Silence and Modernity in Dutch Pictures of Manners: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2007.

Sound, Silence, Modernity Dutch Pict of Manners: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2007

National Galleries Of Scotland

Mariet Westermann analyses Vermeer's work and his place in the history of art on the basis of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum's four paintings, which span the range of his production from early to late, from cityscape to genre, from domestic chores to refined living.

Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675

W-Books

The Dutch painter Jan Steen (1626-1679) has long enjoyed a reputation for his dissolute life, redeemed only by a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries and an exquisite ability to capture his observations in paint. Steen's paintings of unruly households, rambunctious revels, and wily seductresses have come to define our image of the delicious and immoral excesses of the Golden Age. But rather than simply recording the illicit pleasures of Dutch burghers and peasants, Steen transformed them into ambitious genre paintings that rival the peasant epics of Bruegel the Elder and jest with the genteel idylls of Vermeer and Terborch. By placing Steen within Dutch society and culture of the seventeenth century, Mariet Westermann shows how the contradictions and parallels between his life and his art were essential to his innovative achievements. In a detailed analysis of his career and audience, she suggests how Steen became a comic painter and why his pictures appealed to prosperous ur

The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Vol 1)

• For the first time in book form, presenting history-pieces by Jan Steen • 17th century paintings from the Dutch Golden Age • Contributions by Ariane van Suchtelen, Wouter Kloek and Mariët Westermann Jan Steen, one of the most popular painters of the Dutch Golden Age, is known for his humorous depictions of dissolute households, tavern interiors, quacksalvers and love-sick young women. He was unrivalled in poking fun at every conceivable human weakness and vice. A lesser known fact is that he also painted history pieces: scenes based on episodes from the Bible, apocryphal writings and mythology - stories full of excitement, drama and passion. As he did in his genre pieces, Steen devoted a great deal of attention in his history paintings to the interaction between the figures, and was keenly aware of the satirical possibilities of every story. In contrast to what his later image suggests, Jan Steen was a versatile and ambitious artist with a profound knowledge of art history and literature: knowledge that comes to the fore in his history pieces. This richly illustrated publication, written by experts on Jan Steen, focuses on this little-known part of the artist's oeuvre. Contents: Introduction followed by three essays on Jan Steen's history pieces, followed by a catalogue that discusses a selection of the most important paintings of biblical and mythological subjects. The book will be published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands.

Jan Steen's Histories

Kloek, Wouter

van Suchtelen, Ariane

Uitgeverij Waanders & De Kunst

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