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Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art by Michael Zell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art about?
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.
Who reads Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Zell
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789048550647
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Western, Art
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