Research Catalog

Title

Fleeting : scents in colour / Ariane van Suchtelen and Lizzie Marx [and four others] ; [editor, Ariane van Suchtelen].

Author

Suchtelen, Ariane van

Publication

• Zwolle : Waanders Publishers, [2021]
• © 2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marx, Lizzie
• Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands), host institution.

Description

127 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

"Fleeting - Scents in Colour explores odours and the sense of smell as portrayed in Dutch and Flemish art of the seventeenth century - from fragrant flowers and perfumes to body odours and stinking canals. It is about the sensory role played by smells in daily life, about odours and health, about spices and other scents from far-off lands, and about lost 'smellscapes' of the past. But how were odours and the sense of smell portrayed? What meanings were attached to smells and what did they call to mind? Can the life of those times be captured in smells? We are surrounded by countless odours that vanish over time yet exert a strong (often subconscious) infleunce on our emotions. There are just as many stories to be told about the invisible and intangible phenomenon of smell as there are about art. Using our sense of smell while looking at art can open up a whole new world"--Page 4 of cover.

Alternative Title

Scents in colour

Subject

• 1600-1699
• Painting, Netherlandish > 17th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Netherlandish > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Painting, European > 17th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, European > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Odors in art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-123).

Exhibitions (note)

• "This book is published to accompany the exhibition Fleeting -- Scens in colour. Mauritshuis, The Hague (11 February - 6 June, 2021)"--Colophon.

Contents

Foreword / Martine Gosselink -- Smell, art and perception -- Fleeting - Scents in colour. An introduction / Ariane van Suchtelen -- A whiff of time - What our noses can tell us about the past / Caro Verbeek -- Smell as one of the five senses / Ariane van Suchtelen -- Odours in art - depicting the invisible / Lizzie Marx -- The smell of daily life -- 'Sweet-smelling' in the seventeenth century: on hygiene and body odours / Bianca M. du Mortier -- Smell and health / Lizzie Marx -- 'Vostre illustrissime saleté': stench as an environmental problem in the cities of Holland / Jaap Evert Abrahamse -- Odours from overseas / Lizzie Marx -- Perfumery -- Perfume and books of secrets / Lizzie Marx -- Constantijn Huygens: amateur perfumer / Ineke Huysman.

Call Number

JQG 21-975

ISBN

• 9462623295
• 9789462623293

OCLC

1225068044

Author

Suchtelen, Ariane van, author, editor.

Title

Fleeting : scents in colour / Ariane van Suchtelen and Lizzie Marx [and four others] ; [editor, Ariane van Suchtelen].

Publisher

Zwolle : Waanders Publishers, [2021]

Copyright Date

© 2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-123).

Exhibitions

"This book is published to accompany the exhibition Fleeting -- Scens in colour. Mauritshuis, The Hague (11 February - 6 June, 2021)"--Colophon.

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Added Author

Marx, Lizzie, author.

Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 21-975