Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa

Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa
Author: ElizabethA. Sutton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 135156904X

Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutton brings to bear approaches from the disciplines of art history and book history to explore the context in which De Marees' account was created. Since variations of the images and text were repeated in other European travel collections and decorated maps, Sutton is able to trace how the framing of text and image shaped the formation of knowledge that continued to be repeated and distilled in later European depictions of Africans. She reads the engravings in De Marees' account as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry, and Dutch mercantilism. At the same time, by analyzing the marketing tactics of the publisher, Cornelis Claesz, this study illuminates how early modern epistemological processes were influenced by the commodification of knowledge. Sutton examines the book's construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade, and travel. Exploring how the images and text function together, Sutton suggests that Dutch visual and intellectual traditions informed readers' choices for translating De Marees' text visually. Through the examination of early modern Dutch print culture, Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa expands the boundaries of our understanding of the European imperial enterprise.

The Dutch in the Early Modern World

The Dutch in the Early Modern World
Author: David Onnekink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107125812

Presents an overview of early modern Dutch history in global context, focusing on themes that resonate with current concerns.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Wayne Franits
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351546228

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its most beloved painters, until now there has been no comprehensive study assessing the state of research in the field. As the first study of its kind, this book is a useful resource for scholars and advanced students of seventeenth-century Dutch art, and also serves as a springboard for further research. Its 19 chapters, divided into three sections and written by a team of internationally renowned art historians, address a wide variety of topics, ranging from those that might be considered "traditional" to others that have only drawn scholarly attention comparatively recently.

Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700

Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700
Author: Elizabeth Sutton
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048542987

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.

The Print in Early Modern England

The Print in Early Modern England
Author: Malcolm Jones
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300136975

This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and brings to light some very recent discoveries. This large body of material is treated thematically, and within each theme, chronologically. Chapters are devoted to portents and prodigies, the formal moralities and doctrines of Christianity, the sects of Christianity, and the often vicious satire of the Catholic confession (but also of Protestant non-conformists) visual satire of foreigners and others, domestic political issues principally, the English Civil War social criticism and gender roles, marriage and sex, as well as numerical series and miscellaneous visual tricks, puzzles and jokes. The concluding chapter considers the significance of this wealth of visual material for the cultural history of England in the early modern era.

Innocence Abroad

Innocence Abroad
Author: Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2001-11-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521804080

Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602)

Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602)
Author: Pieter de Marees
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Pieter de Marees' history of Guinea--originally published in 1602--is one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for anyone interested in the precolonial period. De Marees wrote primarily about the Gold Coast (Ghana), but his work also covers Cape Verde (Senegal), Benin (Nigeria), and Cape Lopez (Gabon). This new translation includes full annotation and the original engravings.