Landscape And Religion From Van Eyck To Rembrandt

Author : Boudewijn Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561136

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Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt by Boudewijn Bakker Pdf

Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized, Boudewijn Bakker here explores the long history and purpose of landscape in Netherlandish painting. In Bakker's view, early Netherlandish as well as seventeenth-century Dutch painting can be understood only in the context of the intellectual climate of the day. Concentrating on landscape painting as the careful depiction of the visible world, Bakker's analysis takes in the thought of figures seldom consulted by traditional art historians, such as the fifteenth-century philosopher Dionysius the Carthusian, the sixteenth-century religious reformer John Calvin, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the seventeenth-century poet Constantijn Huygens. Probing their conception of nature as 'the first Book of God' and art as its representation, Bakker identifies a world view that has its roots in the traditional Christian perceptions of God and creation. Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt imposes a new layer of interpretation on the richly varied landscapes of the great masters. In so doing it adds a new dimension to the insights offered by modern art-historical research. Further, Bakker's explorations of early modern art and literature provide essential background for any student of European intellectual history.

Author : Wayne Franits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351546225

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century by Wayne Franits Pdf

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its most beloved painters, until now there has been no comprehensive study assessing the state of research in the field. As the first study of its kind, this book is a useful resource for scholars and advanced students of seventeenth-century Dutch art, and also serves as a springboard for further research. Its 19 chapters, divided into three sections and written by a team of internationally renowned art historians, address a wide variety of topics, ranging from those that might be considered "traditional" to others that have only drawn scholarly attention comparatively recently.

Author : William A. Dyrness
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108493352

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The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe by William A. Dyrness Pdf

The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned attention away from a narrow range liturgical art and practices and towards a celebration of God's presence in creation and in history. Though threatened by the human tendency to self-assertion, he shows how a new focus on God's creative and recreative action in the world gave time and history a new seriousness, and engendered a broad spectrum of aesthetic potential. Focusing in particular on the writings of Luther and Calvin, Dyrness demonstrates how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Alexandra Onuf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351251525

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The 'Small Landscape' Prints in Early Modern Netherlands by Alexandra Onuf Pdf

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp in simple, unembellished compositions. At a time when vast panoramic and allegorical landscapes dominated the art market, the Small Landscapes represent a striking innovation. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the significance of the Small Landscapes in early modern print culture. It charts a diachronic history of the series over the century it was in active circulation, from 1559 to the middle of the seventeenth century. Adopting the lifespan of the prints as the framework of the study, Alexandra Onuf analyzes the successive states of the plates and the changes to the series as a whole in order to reveal the shifting artistic and contextual valences of the images at their different moments and places of publication. This unique case study allows for a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across multiple publishing houses, highlighting the seminal importance of print publishers in the creation and dissemination of visual imagery and cultural ideas. Looking at other visual materials and contemporary sources – including texts as diverse as humanist poetry and plays, agricultural manuals, polemical broadsheets, and peasant songs – Onuf situates the Small Landscapes within the larger cultural discourse on rural land and the meaning of the local in the turbulent early modern Netherlands. The study focuses new attention on the active and reciprocal intersections between printed pictures and broader cultural, economic and political phenomena.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003803492

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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt Pdf

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.

Author : Karl A.E. Enenkel,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004440401

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Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700 by Karl A.E. Enenkel,Walter Melion Pdf

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Karl A.E. Enenkel,Michel Weemans,Elliott D. Wise
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004682641

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Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700) by Stijn Bussels,Karl A.E. Enenkel,Michel Weemans,Elliott D. Wise Pdf

This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: “Devotion,” “Art and Image Theory,” and “Vision and Contemplation.” The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists’ reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the ‘early modern eye’ as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.

Author : Walter S. Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523074

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Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting by Walter S. Melion Pdf

Winner of the 2023 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, provides unprecedented access to Van Mander’s crucially important art treatise. The book sheds light on key terms and critical categories such as schilder, manier, uyt zijn selven doen, welstandt, leven and gheest, and wel schilderen, and both exemplifies and explicates the author’s distinctive views on the complementary forms and functions of history and landscape.

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119046356

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Re-Imagining Nature by Alister E. McGrath Pdf

Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present. This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and how this relates to alternative interpretations of our experience of the natural world Alister McGrath is ideally placed to write the book as one of the world’s best known theologians and a chief proponent of natural theology This new work offers an account of the development of natural theology throughout history and informs of its likely contribution in the present This feeds in current debates about the relationship between science and religion, and religion and the humanities Engages in serious theological dialogue, primarily with Augustine, Aquinas, Barth and Brunner, and includes the work of natural scientists, philosophers of science, and poets

Author : Eleanor Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000461800

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Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance by Eleanor Chan Pdf

The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid’s Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had previously been possible. Scholarship has explored the way that the language of mathematics leaked into the literary cultures of England and the Low Countries, but until now the role of visual metaphors of making and shaping in the establishment of mathematics as a practical tool has gone unexplored. Mathematics and the Craft of Thought sheds light on the remarkable culture shift surrounding the vernacular language translations of Euclid, and the geometrical imaginary that they sought to create. It shows how the visual language of early modern European geometry was constructed by borrowing and quoting from contemporary visual culture. The verbal and visual language of this form of mathematics, far from being simply immaterial, was designed to tantalize with material connotations. This book argues that, in a very real sense, practical geometry in this period was built out of craft metaphors.

Author : Arthur J. DiFuria,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004462069

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Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 by Arthur J. DiFuria,Walter Melion Pdf

This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

Author : Daniel Ray,Paul Gould
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736977364

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The Story of the Cosmos by Daniel Ray,Paul Gould Pdf

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe What do you see when you gaze at the night sky? Do you contemplate the stars as the random result of an evolutionary process? Or do you marvel over them as a testament of the Creator’s glory? Modern science has popularized a view of the cosmos that suggests there is no need for God and denies any evidence of His existence. But The Story of the Cosmos provides a different—and fascinating—perspective. It points to a God who makes Himself known in the wonder and beauty of His creation. This compilation from respected scholars and experts spans topics from “The Mathematical Creation and the Image of God” to “The Glorious Dance of Binary Stars” and “God’s Invisible Attributes—Black Holes.” Contributors include Dr. William Lane Craig, Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Dr. Melissa Cain Travis, and Dr. Michael Ward. Come, take a deeper look at the universe…and explore the traces of God’s glory in the latest discoveries of astronomy, science, literature, and art.

Author : Anuradha Gobin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487518813

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Picturing Punishment by Anuradha Gobin Pdf

Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, through, and out of publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform civic life. Focusing on material culture associated with key sites of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion, especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. Certain types of objects related to criminal punishments served a key role in asserting republican ideals and demonstrating the ability of officials to maintain order and control. Conversely, the circulation of other types of images, such as inexpensive paintings and prints, had the potential to subvert official messages. As Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest for new knowledge. Combining a diverse array of sources including architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways reintegrated into society.

Author : Lubecker Nikolaj Lubecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Ecology in motion pictures
ISBN : 9781474470346

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James Benning's Environments by Lubecker Nikolaj Lubecker Pdf

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning's Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning's practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today's essential filmmakers.

Author : Wolfgang Stechow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Landscape painters
ISBN : UOM:39015011205708

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Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century by Wolfgang Stechow Pdf