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Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts book cover

1st Edition

Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts

Edited By Sven Dupré, Christine Göttler Copyright 2017
342 Pages 23 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 23 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste, discernment defined the ability to perceive and understand the secrets of nature and art, and became explicitly connected with a kind of knowledge available only to experts in the respective fields.... Read more

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hidden Artifices
Sven Dupré and Christine Göttler

　

Part I: Sites of Discernment

1 Transforming Nature into Art: Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Tine Luk Meganck

2 Vulcan’s Forge: The Sphere of Art in Early Modern Antwerp

Christine Göttler

Part II: Artifices and Imitation

3 Superb Craftsmanship in Antwerp: Baroque Goldsmiths’ Work in Competition with the Visual Arts

Lorenz Seelig

4 The Veronica according to Zurbarán: Painting as Figura, and Image as Vestigio

Felipe Pereda

5 ‘The Various Natures of Middling Colours We May Learne of Painters’. Sir Kenelm Digby Looks at Rubens and Van Dyck

Karin Leonhard 　

Part III: Secrets and Knowledge

6 Oil Painting as a Workshop Secret: On Calumnies, Legends, and Critical Investigations

Oskar Bätschmann

7 Peiresc in the Parisian ‘Jewel House’
                    
Peter N. Miller 

8 Germanic Antiquity in Rembrandt’s Circle

Thijs Weststeijn

Part IV: Mechanical Science and Technique

9 Rembrandt and Painting as a Mechanical Science in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art

Jan Blanc

10 From Mechanism to Technique: Diderot, Chardin, and the Practice of Painting
  
Paul Taylor

　

Biography

Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Christine Göttler is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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