Exploration of artists in the Netherlands from the late 15th century to the mid 17th century.

Envisioning the Artist: in the Early Modern Netherlands (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthi)

Arts & Photography

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History & Criticism

BRILL

Until the early seventeenth century, the distribution of paintings and other art works was in the hands of the artists, but after that to an increasing extent it was taken on by specialists.The most important art dealers were active in Amsterdam, the art centre par excellence . Hendrick Uylenburgh and his son Gerrit Uylenburgh were leading figures among these dealers. The Uylenburghs, father and son, ran an art business and at the same time headed a painters' workshop where renowned artists worked. Rembrandt worked for this business from 1631 to 1635. He painted countless commissioned portraits and as well as historical paintings and tronies also did grisailles and etchings. While working for this business he met Saskia Uylenburgh, a cousin of the art dealer, whom he married in 1634. Uylenburgh &amp; Son provides insight into the nature and significance of the Uylenburghs' enterprise and also discusses their investors and customers. A great deal of new material has been found about the Uylenburgh fam

Uylenburgh & Son: Art and Commerce From Rembrandt To De Lairesse, 1625-1675

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Pablo Picasso , father of Cubism, painter of 'Guernica', but chiefly an artist of 'Eros and Tanathos': women, bullfights, culinary pleasure, the sun and the sea. A gifted man, thoroughly down to Earth, and blessed with an indomitable lust for life. With half of his career already behind him and at the peak of his fame, he began working in clay. The sensuality and pliability of the material made the Master passionate for the medium. In barely ten years he modelled, scratched, indented and distorted to create an extensive body of ceramic work. This book reveals how Picasso conjured up animals, women, flowers and entire bull-fighting arenas out of plates, pitchers, vases and dishes. Each subject depicted on canvas or paper now appeared in clay, but even more intense as he already saw a female form in the vase itself, or a face in a plate, or a sun-drenched arena in a dish. Ceramic is Picasso in 3D - painting and sculpture come together. The illusion of the flat plane dissolves into the three-dimensiona

Pablo Picasso: Ceramics

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