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.
Michael Zell is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University. He is the author of Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (2002), and co-editor of Rethinking Rembrandt (2002) and 'Ut pictura amor': The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 (2017).
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. The Gift and Art in Early Modernity, 2. Art as Gift in the Dutch Republic, 3. Rembrandt's Art as Gift, 4. Art and Leisure: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation, 5. For the Love of Art: Vermeer and the Poetics of the Gift,Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.
