This handsome book presents an overview of Netherlandish art from 1400 to 1600 by focusing on one hundred works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and decorative arts, from the unparalleled collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Eminent art authorities place these works in the context of their fascinating period in history and discuss their origins, significance, and distinguishing features.This is the first of a four-volume series on Dutch art focusing on the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Published in association with Waanders Publishers and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Netherlandish Art 1400-1600

Arts & Photography

Scholten, Frits

Van Os, Henk

Kok, Jan Piet Fildet

Luijten, Get

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This beautiful book is the second in a four-part series that paints a picture of Dutch art from the late middle ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. The series provides a broad panorama of the achievements of Dutch painters, draughtsmen, sculptors, gold and silversmiths, glass engravers, weavers, potters, and cabinetmakers over the centuries, illustrating its survey with a selection of works of art taken from the unparalleled collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This volume, which focuses on the period from 1600 to 1700, places the works from this magnificent period in their historical context and discusses their origins, significance, and distinguishing features. The book is arranged chronologically in three sections, each opening with a brief introduction that sketches the historical and art-historical outlines of the period and each including reproductions and discussions of the works of art. Longer essays in the beginning of the book address other issues that illuminate the art of the period. Although the book focuses on works from the Rijksmuseum, it includes illustrations of key works from other sources as well. Together the text and the many reproductions form a book that will become a treasured possession of visitors to the Rijksmuseum and of art lovers everywhere.

Netherlandish Art: 1600-1700

Baarsen, Reinier J.

Cornelis, Bart

Kok, Jan Piet Filedt

Kloek, Wouter Th.

Jansen, Guido

Wallert, Arie

This volume catalogs the more than two hundred remarkable and varied pieces of European sculpture and metalwork--dating from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century--amassed by Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation. Highlights of the collection's exemplary aquamanilia, bronze sculptures, medals, and plaquettes include a medieval aquamanile, the finest of its type, depicting the theme of foolish love in the fable of Phyllis and Aristotle, as well as a commanding figure of Mars in the guise of a musketeer loading his weapon, dating to the seventeenth century. Each work in this catalog is illustrated, in many cases with new color photography, and elucidated by in-depth scholarly discussion.

The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XII: European Sculpture and Metalwork

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Princeton University Press

This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the Medici dukes beginning in 1580s, and in 1601 he was appointed official court sculptor to Rudolf II in Prague, where he worked until his death. Some of his best-known works are illustrated and described in this comprehensive volume, including the Bust of Emperor Rudolph II, the fountain Mercury and Cupid, Psyche Born Aloft by Putti, Juggling Man and The Wrestlers.

Adriaen de Vries 1556-1626 (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum)

J.paul Getty Museum

Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626: Imperial Sculptor

One of the most famous statues from eighteenth-century France is the mischevious-looking marble cupid of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. It was made in 1757 by Etienne-Maurice Falconet for Madame de Pompadour, the French King's mistress. The telling sculpture soon acquired its present title L'Amour Mena ant (Menacing Love), partly due to two mysterious lines by Voltaire which were inscribed on its pedastal. In this Rijksmuseum dossier, which is entirely devoted to Falconet's remarkable work of art, the significance and original function of the Cupid, its sculptor and its artistic ideas, as well as his famous patron receive much attention. The wanderings of the statue (from France via Russia to Amsterdam), the history of its reputation (its fortuna critica) and the many copies and replicas made of it are also dealt with.

Menacing Love: A Statue by Falconet

Waanders Uitgevers

Adriaen de Vries /anglais

Reference

Waanders

Although the conditions for a flourishing art of sculpture in the Netherlands received a serious setback after the Iconoclasm and the Reformation, around 100 sculpted sepulchral monuments were nevertheless erected in the 17th century, ranging from simple memorials to completely free-standing tombs.  Behind these remarkable works of art lies a world of prominent patrons and first-class sculptors, of major financial investments and costly materials, of status and personal sorrow. The patronage of this funerary sculpture is the thread running through this book - the first detailed study of 17th-century Dutch sculpture for more than 50 years.  Who ordered these monuments and why?  Who were the artists involved and how did they organize their work?  What were the functions and meanings of this sepulchral sculpture?  What were the costs involved in erecting the tombs, and how were they viewed by the 17th-century public?  These and other questions are examined from various different angles.

Sumptuous Memories: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Tomb Sculpture (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History)

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