Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 660 g
Reihe: Amsterdam University Press
The Life and Career of Jacob Van Loo
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 660 g
Reihe: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 978-94-6298-798-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Focusing on the interrelationship between Jacob van Loo's art, honor, and career, this book argues that Van Loo's lifelong success and unblemished reputation were by no means incompatible, as art historians have long assumed, with his specialization in painting nudes and his conviction for manslaughter. Van Loo's iconographic specialty - the nude - allowed his clientele to present themselves as judges of beauty and display their mastery of decorum, while his portraiture perfectly expressed his clients' social and political ambitions. Van Loo's honor explains why his success lasted a lifetime, whereas that of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer did not. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book reinterprets the manslaughter case as a sign that Van Loo's elite patrons recognized him as a gentleman and highly-esteemed artist.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Life
The State of Flanders: Where Wolves Outnumbered Men
The Hague
The Affluent Bachelor
Settling Down, Moving Up
Great Success
Manslaughter
Starting Over in Saint-Germain
The Royal Academy
The Ambassador Artist
Founder of the Van Loo Dynasty
Chapter 2 - Artistic Output
Training
Studio Practice
Authenticity
History on a Grand Scale
Cabinet Pictures
Fashionable Portraiture
Paris, 1661-70
Chapter 3 - Clientele
Archival Data
Clientele
Portraiture in Amsterdam
Figure Paintings in Amsterdam
Portraits in Paris
Enduring Relationships
The Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family
The Huygens Family
Chapter 4 - The Academic Nude and its Audience
Documentary Evidence on Amsterdam's Academies
European Art Academies
The Theory of 'Welstant'
The Surviving Academic Drawings
Two Groups of Academic Draftsmen
Empathy versus 'Welstant'
Dutch Classicism: The Art of Standing Well
Van Loo's Academic Mode
An Audience for the Academic Nude
Chapter 5 - The Manslaughter Case
Homicide: A Matter of Honor
31 October 1660
Van Loo's Legal Case
Pardon Ante Sententiam
Friendship
Van Loo's 'Honorable' Homicide
Support from the Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family
'His Reputation regarding his Morality'
Homicide in a European Context
Appendices
A List of Works
B List of Early Owners
C Transcriptions
Notes
Bibliography
List of illustrations
Photocredits
Index
