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Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art / Michael Zell
- Title
- Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art / Michael Zell
- Author
- Zell, Michael,
- Publication
- [Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, 2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NX554 .Z45 2021g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 508 pages : illustrations; 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
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-483) and index
- ISBN
- 946372642X
- 9789463726429
- OCLC
- on1228476876
- 1228476876
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries