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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dutch Golden Age"”.
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Life Still: A Sequence of Paintings Reimagining Dutch Golden Age Still Life
… 2016 and 2020, which took as starting point Dutch 17th century still life painting. The works use an idiosyncratic graphite medium to interpret, appropriate and reposition the genre, resulting in a sequence of common focus. The sequence is illustrated in full, and is accompanied by a …
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
<p>A number of important genre paintings from the Dutch Golden Age represent brothel scenes. These include Dirck van Baburen's The Procuress (1622), Hendrik Pot's Vanity (c. 1633), Nicolaus Knüpfer's Brothel Scene (c. 1650), and Frans van Mieris's Brothel Scene (c. 1658). Many of these--indeed all …
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Liminal Perspective: Still-Life and Interactive 3D Animation
… at the center of perception and the singular vantage point of pictorial space. Alberti's theory marked a huge philosophical shift from a god-centric worldview to a human-centric one. Technology, however, is rapidly changing our functional relationship to perspective and allows an expanded …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… concepts were a key element in early modern Dutch representations of Asia, and played an essential role in the development of European cultures of empiricism. Historians, art historians, and scholars of orientalism have emphasised the imperialist and commercial inflections of Dutch …
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The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting
<p>The works in this series explore the application of Platonic binary oppositions of life/death and attraction/repulsion using Renaissance painting techniques that include the application of solvent and linseed oil glazes, as well as Galkyd Lite and MSA Gel, to assist in the realistic replication …
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The office of stadhouder and the preservation of unity in the Dutch Republic, 1559 - 1672
… of the United Netherlands, also known as the Dutch Republic, was a compound state in which sovereignty was shared between towns, provinces, and the States General. The Union of Utrecht of 1579 was one of the Republic’s principal founding documents, yet paradoxically grounded the state in the …