Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art / / Michael Zell.

This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
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Physical Description:1 online resource (508 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Gift and Art in Early Modernity
  • 2. Art as Gift in the Dutch Republic
  • 3. Rembrandt’s Art as Gift
  • 4. Art and Leisure: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation
  • 5. For the Love of Art: Vermeer and the Poetics of the Gift
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index