1st Edition
Confronting the Golden Age Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting 1680-1750
By Junko Aono
Copyright 2015
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Is it possible to talk about Dutch art after 1680 outside the prevailing critical framework of the age of decline? Although an increasing number of studies are being published on the art and society of this period, genre painting of this era continues to be dismissed as an uninspired repetition of the art of the second and third quarters of the seventeenth century, known as the Dutch Golden... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1. Confronting the Heritage of the Golden Age: The Situation around Dutch Genre Painting 1680-1750 Chapter 2. Reproducing the Golden Age: Copies after Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century Chapter 3. Emulating the Golden Age: The Painter?s Choice of Motifs and Subject Matter in Dutch Genre Painting of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century Chapter 4. Ennobling Daily Life: A Question of Refinement in Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting Epilogue Appendix Catalogue: Painters 1680-1750 Notes, Bibliography.
Biography
Junko Aono is professor of Art History, at Meiji Gakuin Univeristy, Tokyo, Japan and received her PhD on Dutch genre painting 1680-1750 from the University of Amsterdam in 2011. Her publications include articles in major scientific magazines, such as Oud Holland and Simiolus, and contributions to exhibitions such as Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting (Tokyo, 2007) and Nicolaas Verkolje (Enschede, 2011).
