Jacob Campo Weyerman and his Collection of Artists’ Biographies

An Art Critic at Work

Lyckle de Vries (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

398 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42180-6 (ISBN)

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Weyerman’s art critical jargon and ideas on art theory are analysed in this study of his artists’ biographies (1729). Weyerman pays much attention to the artists’ lifestyle. They should live and think as merchants: a bohemian life style, he found, was pernicious.

Weyerman’s collection of artists’ biographies (1729) is exceptional for three reasons. Firstly, he includes a great number of painters not mentioned elsewhere. Secondly, he does not limit his selection to good artists only; he also discusses failed painters and their abortive careers. Thirdly, he writes as an art critic who does not hesitate to pass judgments, sometimes severe, on his chosen subjects.

In the process, Weyerman provides much information on the social and economic circumstances of art production. He found that a bohemian lifestyle was pernicious to a painter’s career, and argued that artists should live and think as merchants. In addition to analyzing Weyerman’s art critical terminology and his ideas on art theory, De Vries includes translations of two full chapters along with the original Dutch.

Lyckle de Vries (*1937) retired from Groningen University in 2000. Apart from writing monographic studies on 17th-century Dutch artists, he analysed contemporary printed sources on Dutch art and art theory, Gerard de Lairesse (1998, 2011), and Johan van Gool (1990).

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 Contents of the Levens-Beschryvingen

2 Weyerman’s Opinions

1 Painted and Written Genre Scenes

1 Urban Genre

2 Low Life Genre

3 Italianate Scenes

4 Large-Scale Genre Paintings

5 Fine Painting

2 Failed Artists

1 Pretentions of Nobility

2 Social Skills

3 Marriage

4 Painterly Studios

5 Intemperance

6 Mental Problems

7 Art Dealers and Their Victims

8 Copying

9 Antwerp’s Vrijdagsmarkt

10 Street Vendors and Itinerant Painters

3 Portraiture

1 London

2 The ‘Byway’ of Art

3 The Sitter’s Identity

4 Good Manners, Flattery and Beauty

5 The Netherlands

6 Other Group Portraits

4 Art in the Public Space

1 Altarpieces

2 Stained Glass Windows

3 Wall Tapestries

4 Princely Commissions

5 Government Commissions

6 Municipal Commissions

7 Festive Entries

8 Private Commissions

5 Art Criticism

1 Choice of Subject Matter

2 Composition

3 Human Figures

4 Pictorial Space

5 Reddering

6 Colouring

7 Handling of the Brush

8 Welstand

6 Pliny, Durand and Weyerman

1 Weyerman’s Ideas in Perspective

2 Beauty

3 Grace

4 Art and Nature

5 The Purpose of Art

6 Classification

7 Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Biography of Willem de Fouchier

Appendix 2: Disquisition on the Art of the Ancients

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 309/43
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	856 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-42180-7 / 9004421807
ISBN-13	978-90-04-42180-6 / 9789004421806
Zustand	Neuware