Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1750
Title | Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Mitchell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Flowers in art |
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Details of the lives of the painters and the story of the development of this genre
Dutch Flower Painting, 1600-1720
Title | Dutch Flower Painting, 1600-1720 PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Taylor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300053906 |
At the time of the great tulip speculation of the 1630s in Holland, the most desirable tulip bulbs were auctioned for more money than the most expensive houses in Amsterdam. At the same time flower paintings which were remarkable for their apparent realism were produced all over Holland and purchased by Dutch families as enduring substitutes for the real thing. This beautiful book reveals the fascinating genesis and growth of a whole genre of paintings that has rarely been studied. Paul Taylor begins by discussing Holland's 'tulipomania' and its effect on the way people thought about floral still lifes. He then considers the religious messages associated with the flower paintings, exploring how religious writers spoke of flowers as moral signposts from God and how some flower paintings were meant to remind viewers of the transience of earthly existence. Flower paintings were not bought only as records of luxury objects or for moral edification, however. They were also enjoyed as works of art, as masterpieces of illusion, composition and colour harmony, so Taylor analyses the art-theoretical writings of the time in order to understand how artists and connoisseurs responded to flower pieces. He concludes by analysing the paintings themselves, tracing the development and refinement of the actual practice of flower painting.
Dutch Flower Painting
Title | Dutch Flower Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Taylor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780300053906 |
Dutch Flower Painting
Title | Dutch Flower Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Taylor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 1996 |
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Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Title | Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 9780894682117 |
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Dutch Flower Painting in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Title | Dutch Flower Painting in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Rose Feri |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Flowers in art |
ISBN |
Miraculous Bouquets
Title | Miraculous Bouquets PDF eBook |
Author | Anne T. Woollett |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 51 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606060902 |
"One of the most celebrated painters of the eighteenth century, Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682-1749) gained immense fame and fortune for his meticulously rendered bouquets of flowers and fruit. With their precise botanical depictions, brilliant colors, and technical virtuosity, Van Huysums's elegant compositions were avidly collected by the elite connoisseurs throughout Europe."-- Publisher description.