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Title: Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age: Paintings and People in Historical Perspective by Klaske Muizelaar, Derek Phillips ISBN: 0-300-09817-0 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating Snapshot - Tell Me More ...
Comment: Muizelaar and Phillips start by giving us some fascinating glimpses of the material culture of the Netherlands, especially Amsterdam, in the 17th century. The focus of the latter two thirds of the book is "the role of paintings in the lives of wealthy Amsterdam families, particularly those in which human figures feature prominently". Indeed, they rely heavily on inventories produced by one man, Jan Pietersz Zomer, one of the first in the emerging 17th century profession of art dealer.
The authors remind us that the picture which these paintings present - the fair of face, the cultured, sunny skies - are idealised, or exaggerated - drunken low-lifes, tavern scenes, the evils of tobacco and gambling - just as in today's scenic and humorous postcards. I wanted to know more: what do the (more true-to-life) drawings and prints tell us? the lyrics of popular songs?
What of sources from other cities? Amsterdam was one of the largest and richest mercantile cities in the world: what about industrial Delft? the university town of Leiden? the aristocrats of the Hague? and what about the country folk ("boeren", farmers as well as peasants)? On the vexed question of gender roles, why were the four officially-appointed valuers ("schatsters") in Amsterdam all women? what do the records of their guild tell us?
And crucially, I wanted to know how Amsterdammers from all walks of life dealt with the contradictions between what these paintings show and tell, and their heart-felt religion, which the clerics of the Protestant conversion ("de Alteratie" which formed Amsterdam) preached from the pulpit and the pamphlet. The extensive bibliography signposts some paths for further searching.
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Title: Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama, Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn ISBN: 067940256X Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (NEWBERY HONOR BOOK) by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0395776082 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ISBN: 0465027296 Publisher: Basiccivitas Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Introducing Special Relativity by W. S. C. Williams, W.S. Williams ISBN: 0415277620 Publisher: T&F STM Pub. Date: 07 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart ISBN: 0738206644 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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