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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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 clearly constituted a fascination for Dutch and Flemish consumers of the early modern period. The aim of this volume is to show a balanced hand of current international research on 17th-century Flemish and Dutch - apparently pokerfaced - portraiture.
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VG. Black & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 277 pp., BW illus. A collection of 13 illustrated essays that explore this topic. Essays are supplied in the language of their authors; 10 are in English, 2 are in Dutch, one is in German. The essays are: Between physiognomy and pathognomy: theoretical perspectives on the representation of characters and emotions in the seventeenth century / Jacques Bos--Stoisch Sterben lernen: Rubens' Memorialbild auf Justus Lipsius and Philip Rubens / Ulrich Heinen--Een news voor kunst. De Antwerpse liefhebber Jacomo de Cachiopin (1591/92--1659) en zijn collectie / Bert Watteeuw--A physician's view beyond the curtains of seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch baroque portraits / Jan Dequeker--The portrait historié in religious context and its condemnation / Rudie van Leeuwen--"According to old custom": The seventeenth-century portrait series depicting the land commanders of the Teutonic Order of Knights, Utrecht Bailiwick / Daantje Meuwissen--Naked or not? : some thoughts on nudity and portraiture in seventeenth-century painting / Karolien De Clippel--De herontdekking van het portret van de familie Van Mierevelt / Rudi Ekkart--(Family) portraits in the construction of a visual family tree and a social identity: anticipating the aspirations of elite clientele in seventeenth-century Antwerp / Bert Timmermans--The performative portrait historié / Ann Jensen Adams--The importance of place in Pieter Thys's group portrait of the wardens of the Holy Sacrament Chapel in St. Jacob's Church, Antwerp / Jeffrey Muller--Portraits of women who 'do not keep strictly to the Masculine and Feminine Genders, as they call them' / Zirka Z. Filipczak--"Amoris et doloris monumentum": portraits and how they were perceived in the baroque age / Katlijne Van der Stighelen.