From criminal to courtier : : the soldier in Netherlandish art 1550-1672 / / David Kunzle.

• Superior document: History of Warfare ; 10
• VerfasserIn: Kunzle, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The art of the Netherlands (Dutch and Flemish) is unique in Early Modern Europe in its concern for military cruelty against civilians, principally the peasantry. Decimated by time and changes in taste, this popular iconography proves varied and extensive, stretching from Bruegel to and past Rubens. 'Massacres of the Innocents' continue to be a favourite subject through the Eighty Years War, in contrast to ruling-class glorifications of war. Dutch patriotic siege prints lay claim to 'scientific' precision in landscapes free of military terror, while the idea of military conquest is presented as generous rather than cruel in the ever-popular figure of Scipio Africanus. Most of the pictorial material is unfamiliar, some of it even to specialists and never before published; new light is shed on the more familiar phenomena of the civic guard groups and Ter Borch courtier-officers, 'good soldiers' overcoming a bad image.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Dutch between Militarism and Anti-Militarism in the "Century of the Soldier" -- Part One (1550-1600): Spanish Herod, Dutch Innocents -- Ch. 1 Massacre of the Innocents in Literature and Art circa 1300 to 1550 -- Ch. 2 Vermeyen's Tapestry Series on the Conquest of Tunis by Charles V -- Ch. 3 The Great Repression under Charles V and Philip II -- Ch. 4 Two Massacres of the Innocents and a Census in Bethlehem by Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Ch. 5 Maarten van Heemskerck: A Pacifist in Art -- Ch. 6 Spanish Herod, Dutch Innocents: Anti-Spanish Satires 1569-1578 -- Ch. 7 Massacres in France: The Roman Triumvirate, Saint Bartholomew's Day -- Ch. 8 Massacre and Plunder in Late Sixteenth-Century Landscape -- Ch. 9 Haarlem and the War 1578-1600: Patriotic Works by Goltzius, Jacques de Gheyn, Cornelis van Haarlem, and Karel van Mander -- Part Two (1600-1650): New War, Old Plundering -- Ch. 10 Plundering: The Written Record -- Ch. 11 New Landscape, Old Plundering -- Ch. 12 Transacting the Plunder -- Ch. 13 Rubens: Man of Peace or Man of War? -- Part Three (1600-1670): The Good Soldier (Soldier as Courtier) -- Ch. 14 The Soldier Redeemed: Siege Maps -- Ch. 15 The Magnanimous Soldier: The Continence of Scipio Africanus -- Ch. 16 The Ideal Soldier: The Civic Guard Company Paintings -- Ch. 17 The Gallant Soldier: Gerard Ter Borch in Deventer 1650s-60s -- Continuation: 1648-1998 -- Bibliography -- Index.