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Winner of the 2023 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History
Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, provides unprecedented access to Van Mander's crucially important art treatise. The book sheds light on key terms and critical categories such as schilder, manier, uyt zijn selven doen, welstandt, leven and gheest, and wel schilderen, and both exemplifies and explicates the author's distinctive views on the complementary forms and functions of history and landscape.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
About the Author
Introduction
1 The Intertextual Network of Dedicatory Epistles and Prefaces
2 The Sources, Title-Page, and Scope of the Grondt
3 Laying a Comparative Foundation for the Schilder-Boeck
4 Key Terms and Critical Categories
5 Ekphrastic Usage in the Schilder-Boeck
6 Landschap and byvoechsel: Van Mander on Landscape and History, Simulation and Dissimulation
7 Précis of the Poem's Fourteen Chapters
Den Grondt: The Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting: In which her form, origin, and nature are placed before the eyes of inquisitive Youth, in discrete Parts, in Rhymed Verse.
"Prefaces and Selected Preliminary Poems"
Chapter 1: "Exhortation, or Admonition to up and coming young Painters"
Chapter 2: "On Drawing, or the Art of Delineating"
Chapter 3: "Analogy, Proportion, or Measurement of the Parts of the Human Body"
Chapter 4: "On the Attitude, Decorum, and Decorous Motion of a Human Figure"
Chapter 5: "On the Ordonnance and Invention of Histories"
Chapter 6: "Portrayal of the Affects, Passions, Desires, and Sorrows of Persons"
Chapter 7: "On Reflection, Reverberation, re-reflected luster, or re-reflection"
Chapter 8: "On Landscape"
Chapter 9: "On Cattle, Animals, and Birds"
Chapter 10: "On Fabrics or Drapery"
Chapter 11: "On Sorting and Combining Colors"
Chapter 12: "On Painting Well, or Coloring"
Chapter 13: "On the Origin, Nature, Force, and Effect of Colors"
Chapter 14: "On the Interpretation of Colors, and What They Can Signify"
Register of Commonplaces: "Table of the Foundation of the Art of Painting"
Commentary
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- 電子書籍
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- 和雑誌
- クララ （２０２６年２月号）
