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Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch art

Title

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch art / Michael Zell.

Author

Zell, Michael, 1962-

Publication

[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
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Description

508 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.

Summary

This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a "love of art," not materialistic gain. In the merchant republic's vibrant market for art, networks of gift relations and the anti-economic rhetoric of the gift mingled with the growing dimension of commerce, revealing a unique chapter in the interconnected history of gift giving and art making.

Series Statement

Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

Uniform Title

Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogs.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Call Number

JQE 22-115

ISBN

946372642X
9789463726429

OCLC

1228476876

Author

Zell, Michael, 1962- author.

Title

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch art / Michael Zell.

Publisher

[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Research Call Number

JQE 22-115

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