Full Description
Narrative painting [-]Style (mannerism, baroque, classicism)[-]
Contents
1 Introduction[-]What, how and why[-]Patrons and their wishes[-]Artists and their choices[-]Art historians and their problems [-]2 Large-scale paintings: how it began[-] The international standard[-]Dutch rebellion[-]3 Small-scale paintings: how it began [-] Collectibles from Italy and Antwerp [-] Dutch cabinet paintings: Lastman [-] Landscape or background?[-] Dutch cabinet paintings: Rembrandt, Lievens [-]4 Large-scale paintings: back to normal [-] For connoisseurs and clerics [-] In the periphery of the court [-] For citizens of substance [-]5 Large-scale paintings: baroque attempts [-] Rubens' religious and political propaganda[-] Light and dark and drama [-] Rembrandt's theatre of horrors [-]6 Small-scale paintings: beyond baroque [-] Rembrandt in the 'forties; his followers [-] Three pupils [-] Some more pupils and followers[-]7 Monumental canvases for public buildings [-] Huis ten Bosch Palace [-] The drapers' hall of Leiden[-] The assembly hall of the States of Holland [-] Amsterdam's new town hall [-]8 Large-scale paintings: the second half of the century[-] Specialists and non-specialists [-] Monumental art for the private home [-] War and peace, justice and politics [-]9 Small-scale paintings: the last quarter of the century[-] Between history and genre painting [-]10 Exceptions[-] Four outsiders [-]11 Concluding remarks[-] The end?[-] Left out[-] The canon [-][-]
