Early Modern Dutch Prints Of Africa

Author : ElizabethA. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351569057

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Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa by ElizabethA. Sutton Pdf

Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutton brings to bear approaches from the disciplines of art history and book history to explore the context in which De Marees' account was created. Since variations of the images and text were repeated in other European travel collections and decorated maps, Sutton is able to trace how the framing of text and image shaped the formation of knowledge that continued to be repeated and distilled in later European depictions of Africans. She reads the engravings in De Marees' account as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry, and Dutch mercantilism. At the same time, by analyzing the marketing tactics of the publisher, Cornelis Claesz, this study illuminates how early modern epistemological processes were influenced by the commodification of knowledge. Sutton examines the book's construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade, and travel. Exploring how the images and text function together, Sutton suggests that Dutch visual and intellectual traditions informed readers' choices for translating De Marees' text visually. Through the examination of early modern Dutch print culture, Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa expands the boundaries of our understanding of the European imperial enterprise.

Author : Elizabeth A. Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1351569031

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Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa by Elizabeth A. Sutton Pdf

Author : David Onnekink,Gijs Rommelse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107125810

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The Dutch in the Early Modern World by David Onnekink,Gijs Rommelse Pdf

Presents an overview of early modern Dutch history in global context, focusing on themes that resonate with current concerns.

Author : Elizabeth Sutton
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048542987

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Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 by Elizabeth Sutton Pdf

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.

Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271094090

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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola by Cécile Fromont Pdf

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention. This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation. Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion.

Author : Elizabeth A. Sutton
Publisher : Visual and Material Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : 9463721401

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Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 by Elizabeth A. Sutton Pdf

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.

Author : Rebecca Parker Brienen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789053569474

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Visions of Savage Paradise by Rebecca Parker Brienen Pdf

Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.

Author : Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521804086

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Innocence Abroad by Benjamin Schmidt Pdf

Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Tim Somers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781783275496

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Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England by Tim Somers Pdf

Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes of late Stuart print culture. Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display articles of cheap print within carefully curated collections. What motivated this sudden urge to preserve the ephemeral? This book answers that question by analysing the social, political and intellectual factors behind the formation of cheap print collections, how these collections were used by their owners, and what this activity can tell us about 'print culture' in the early modern period. The book's central collector is John Bagford (1650-1715), a shoemaker who became a dealer of prints and other 'curiosities' to important collectors of the time such as Samuel Pepys, Hans Sloane and Robert Harley. Bagford's own rich and largely unstudied collection is afascinating study in its own right and his position at the centre of commercial and intellectual networks opens up a whole world of collecting. This world encompasses later Stuart partisan political culture, when modern parties and the 'public sphere' first emerged; the 'New Science' and 'virtuoso culture' with its milieu of natural philosophers, antiquaries and artisans; the aural and visual landscape of marketplaces, streets and alehouses; and developing practices of record-keeping, life-writing and historical writing during the long eighteenth century.

Author : Helmer J. Helmers,Geert H. Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172265

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The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age by Helmer J. Helmers,Geert H. Janssen Pdf

An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Author : Gitta Bertram,Nils Büttner,Claus Zittel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004464520

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Gateways to the Book by Gitta Bertram,Nils Büttner,Claus Zittel Pdf

An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800.

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004348035

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Imagining the Americas in Print by Michiel van Groesen Pdf

In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.

Author : Pieter de Marees
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013408383

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Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) by Pieter de Marees Pdf

Pieter de Marees' history of Guinea--originally published in 1602--is one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for anyone interested in the precolonial period. De Marees wrote primarily about the Gold Coast (Ghana), but his work also covers Cape Verde (Senegal), Benin (Nigeria), and Cape Lopez (Gabon). This new translation includes full annotation and the original engravings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Historians
ISBN : IND:30000003260712

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Historians of Early Modern Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812290349

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Inventing Exoticism by Benjamin Schmidt Pdf

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.