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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 67 (2017)
The eleven essays in this volume offer the most complete and accurate overview of Netherlandish 16th-century sculpture to date.
Arts of Display
The recent wave of renovations of Netherlandish museums inspired this volume of the "Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek," which focuses on display as a key approach to the visual culture of the Netherlands from the early modern period to the present. The volume opens with a critical discussion of the newly reinstalled Rijksmuseum. It includes analyses of the depiction of aggressive interactions with artworks, the ways in which meaning is mobilised by changing displays of paintings by Rubens, and the politics of display in a seventeenth-century palace and in Fascist and De Stijl exhibitions. Display in domestic spaces, including Rembrandt s house and a museum of Asiatic art, is considered, as are the implications of plinths and curtains.
Lon Pennock
Co-published by Stichting Lon Pennock and Jap Sam Books, this attractive hardcover survey catalog brings together over 100 pieces from the playful, poetic body of work of Dutch artist Lon Pennock (b. 1945). By investigating simple forms seemingly borrowed from objective reality, Lon Pennock developed an aesthetic language which draws solely on such geometric elements as the rectangular solid, the cube, the cone or the cylinder. As co-author Frits Scholten remarks, Often in Pennocks oeuvre, movement and peripety are created through the use of diagonalsin sculpture, always a classic way to break through the stagnation and to suggest Iife.
Adriaen de Vries 1556-1626
This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the Medici dukes beginning in 1580s, and in 1601 he was appointed official court sculptor to Rudolf II in Prague, where he worked until his death. Some of his best-known works are illustrated and described in this comprehensive volume, including the Bust of Emperor Rudolph II, the fountain Mercury and Cupid, Psyche Born Aloft by Putti, Juggling Man and The Wrestlers.
Bronze
"Tracing the origin of these ideas in religion, alchemy, astrology and political ideology, the catalogue explores the association of bronze with perceptions about nature and cycles of life and death."--BOOK JACKET.
The Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden
A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century The Throne of the Great Mogul (1701–8) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb depicted during the emperor’s birthday celebrations. It was created by the jeweler Johann Melchior Dinglinger in Dresden and purchased by the Saxon prince Augustus the Strong for an enormous sum. Constructed like a theatrical set made of gold, silver, thousands of gemstones, and amazing enamel work, it consists of 164 pieces that together tell a detailed story. Why did Dinglinger invest so much time and effort in ma...
The Bacchant and Other Late Works by Adriaen de Vries
The Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries created a sequence of masterpieces in the period from 1620 to his death 1626. They each bear full witness to the artist's unique, loose modelling style and his dynamic approach to composition - qualities that placed him well ahead of time. The absolute pinnacle among these later works is the recently discovered Bacchant, which attracted the attention of the world's media in 2014 when the Rijksmuseum acquired it at auction for a record price. This grand finale to De Vries's long and successful career was set in Prague, where, in 1601 - after engagements in Florence, Milan, Turin and Augsburg - he was appointed court sculptor to the art-loving emperor Rudolf...
De Mondiale Context Van Nederlandse Kunst
This NKJ volume breaks new ground in applying the aims and approaches of global art history to the Low Countries. From Greenland to South Africa and Mexico to Sri Lanka, it explores how Netherlandish art testifies to the interconnectedness of the Early Modern world.
