Art of Describing Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century

Name: Art of Describing Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9780226015132

ISBN-10: 0226015130

ISBN-13: 9780226015132

Edition: 1984 (Reprint)

Authors: Svetlana Alpers

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"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art is the primary expression of a 'textual culture,' this is to say of a culture which…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.70" wide x 1.00" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



Constantijn Huygens andThe New World



""Ut pictura, ita visio"": Kepler's Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North



""With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye"": The Craft of Representation



The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art



Looking at Words: The Representation of Texts in Dutch Art


Epilogue Vermeer and Rembrandt


Appendix: On the Emblematic Interpretation of Dutch Art


Notes


Index