In the footsteps of the old masters : the myth of golden age Holland in 19th century art and art criticism /
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| Author / Creator: | Rosales Rodríguez, Agnieszka, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Sladami dawnych mistrzów. English |
| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, [2016] |
| Description: | 399 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10863162 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. The myth of Golden Age Holland in 19th century criticism and historiography
- I.1. Holland in the eyes of a traveller, a critic and a historian. Tourist clichés versus aesthetics
- I.2. The Night Watch - a painting and national history
- I.3. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp and the modern laboratory
- II. "The Sunday of life" - the idyllic image of Holland in the Golden Age
- II.1. The bourgeois ethos: domestic tranquillity and pleasures of a burgher's life
- II.2. The "moral geography" and the "light of Holland"
- II.3. A repository of the modern painter's accessories
- III. The dark face of Janus. The disturbing aspect of Golden Age Holland
- III.1. Expressiveness of colour and light. Interpretations of the manner of Rembrandt and Hals
- III.2. Slaughtered Ox - the structure of flesh
- III.3. Around the body of Bathsheba - the "mud" and the light
- III.4. The Biblia humana. On portraying human misery
- III.5. Ruisdael the poet. Truth and fantasy: the landscape painter's dilemmas
- III.6. A self-portrait by Rembrandt. The paradigm of a modern painters personality
- Conclusion
- Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
