scholarly journals Angela Jager, The Mass Market for History Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Production, Distribution, Consumption. Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Tummers
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
History Paintings

The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Nierop
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Book Illustrations ◽  
Radical Enlightenment ◽  
William Iii ◽  
Spin Doctor

Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and king William III. This study, the first book-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism. Traditionally regarded as a godless rogue, and more recently as an exponent of the Radical Enlightenment, de Hooghe emerges in this study as a successful entrepreneur, a social climber, and an Orangist spin doctor. A study in seventeenth-century political culture and patronage, focusing on spin and slander, this book explores how artists, politicians, and hacks employed literature and the visual arts in political discourse, and tried to capture their readership with satire, mockery, fun, and laughter.

The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Nierop
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Book Illustrations ◽  
Radical Enlightenment ◽  
William Iii ◽  
Spin Doctor

Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and king William III. This study, the first book-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism. Traditionally regarded as a godless rogue, and more recently as an exponent of the Radical Enlightenment, de Hooghe emerges in this study as a successful entrepreneur, a social climber, and an Orangist spin doctor. A study in seventeenth-century political culture and patronage, focusing on spin and slander, this book explores how artists, politicians, and hacks employed literature and the visual arts in political discourse, and tried to capture their readership with satire, mockery, fun, and laughter.

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Youth Behavior ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
The 1960S

Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about the generation of young men that came of age in the Dutch Republic during the economic boom of the early seventeenth century. Contrary to their parents' wishes, the younger generation grew up in luxury and wore extravagant clothing, grew their hair long, and squandered their time drinking and smoking. They created a new youth culture with many excesses; one that we today associate with the counterculture generation of the 1960s. With his engaging storytelling style and humorous anecdotes, Roberts convincingly reveals that deviant male youth behavior is common to all times, especially periods when youngsters have too much money and too much free time on their hands.

Renovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 156-200
Author(s):  
Howard Hotson
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Covenant Theology ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Previous Period ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Fresh Perspective

The rapid assimilation of Cartesianism into the young Dutch universities is often regarded as evidence of the unique open-mindedness of Dutch society and culture during the Golden Age. Absent from such accounts is the fact that a disproportionate share of the earliest and most avid ‘Dutch Cartestians’ were in fact first- or second-generation refugees, displaced from the heartland of the Ramist and post-Ramist tradition in Reformed Germany during the course of the Thirty Years War (section 5.i). Particularly instructive is a group of early defenders of Cartesianism—Tobias Andreae, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich—educated in the Reformed academy in Bremen under the little-known figure of Gerhard de Neufville (section 5.ii). To this group can be added the Bremen-born Johannes Coccejus, whose variety of covenant theology was combined with Cartesianism to generate a tradition characteristic of the early Dutch moderate Enlightenment (section 5.iii). Placing the advent of academic Cartesianism within the intellectual diaspora of the Thirty Years War therefore opens fresh perspective on the Dutch Golden Age of the mid-seventeenth century and the intellectual fertility of Holy Roman Empire during the previous period (section 5.iv).

The Mass Market for History Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Jager
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
History Paintings

Millions of paintings were produced in the Dutch Republic. The works that we know and see in museums today constitute only the tip of the iceberg — the top-quality part. But what else was painted? This book explores the low-quality end of the seventeenth-century art market and outlines the significance of that production in the genre of history paintings, which in traditional art historical studies, is usually linked to high prices, famous painters, and elite buyers. Angela Jager analyses the producers, suppliers, and consumers active in this segment to gain insight into this enormous market for cheap history paintings. What did the supply consist of in terms of quantity, quality, price, and subject? Who produced all these works and which production methods did these painters employ? Who distributed these paintings, to whom, and which strategies were used to market them? Who bought these paintings, and why?

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