Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe

New Perspectives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-35270-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Reihe: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Exploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in early modern northern European genre images, this volume deepens our understanding of genre's place in early modern visual culture. From 1500 to 1700, artists in northern Europe pioneered the category of pictures now known as genre, portrayals of people in ostensibly quotidian situations. Critical approaches to genre images have moved past the antiquated notion that they portray uncomplicated 'slices of life,' describing them instead as heavily encoded pictorial essays, laden with symbols that only the most erudite contemporary viewers and modern iconographers could fully comprehend. These essays challenge that limiting binary, revealing a more expansive array of accessible meanings in genre's deft grafting of everyday scenarios with a rich complex of experiential, cultural, political, and religious references. Authors deploy a variety of approaches to detail genre's multivalent relations to older, more established pictorial and literary categories, the interplay between the meaning of the everyday and its translation into images, and the multifaceted concerns genre addressed for its rapidly expanding, unprecedentedly diverse audience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Difuria, Arthur J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements

1 Genre: Audience, Origins, and Definitions

Arthur J. DiFuria

2 The Value of Play in Early Genre Painting: Lucas van Leyden’s Card Games

Jessen Kelly

3 Moralizing Dialogues on the Northern Market Economy: Women’s Directives in Sixteenth-Century Genre Imagery of the Antwerp Marketplace

Annette LeZotte

4 Jacques Jordaens’s Twelfth Night Politics

Irene Schaudies

5 For the Pleasure and Contentment of the Audience: Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Merry Fiddler: Promoting Civil Behavior in Early Seventeenth-Century Utrecht

Sheila D. Muller

6 Adriaen van de Venne’s Cavalier at a Dressing Table: Masculinity and Parody in Seventeenth-Century Holland

Martha Hollander

7 Rembrandt and "Everyday Life": The Fusion of Genre and History

Amy Golahny

8 The Rustic Still Life in Dutch Genre Painting: Bijwerck dat Verclaert

Alison M. Kettering

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur J. DiFuria is Professor of Early Modern Northern European Drawings, Prints, and Paintings at Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.