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Pokerfaced: Flemish and Dutch Baroque Faces Unveiled

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Pokerfaced: Flemish and Dutch Baroque Faces Unveiled - Van Der Stighelen, Katlijne (Editor), and Watteeuw, Bert (Editor)
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Long dismissed as dull face painting, portraiture as a visual art gained new interest with the rise of contextual art history, the study of works of arts as products, reflections, and sometimes motivators of the social and cultural concerns of their time. Whether taken to encompass the studies of anonymus heads that have now been shown to belong to the seperate category of 'tronies', or confined more strictly to the representation of individuals whose historical identity is essential to the content of the work, portraiture ...

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Pokerfaced: Flemish and Dutch Baroque Faces Unveiled 2011, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout

ISBN-13: 9782503525648

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