Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings
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Amalia Van Solms
Antwerp Jesuits
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baroque still life
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Chiesa Nuova
Christ Child
Daniel Seghers
De Heem
Della Robbia
devotional
Devotional Image
devotional painting analysis
early modern materiality
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Forty Hours Devotion
Frans Francken
Frans Francken II
Garland Paintings
Garland Pictures
Habsburg collections
image
Jan Brueghel
Jan Davidsz
Jesuit visual culture
Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten
Louvre Painting
Madonna Della Vallicella
Naer Het Leven
Nasher Museum
northern European art
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
religious iconography
Seventeenth Century Viewers
Van Balen
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138250222
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters”Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem”this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. The first sustained study of the garland paintings, the book uses contextual and formal analysis to achieve two goals. One, it demonstrates how and why the paintings flourished in a number of contexts, ranging from an ecclesiastical center in Milan, to a Jesuit chapter house and private collections in Antwerp, to the Habsburg court in Vienna. Two, the book shows that when viewed over the course of the century, the images produced by Brueghel, Seghers and de Heem share important similarities, including an interest in self-referentiality and the exploration of pictorial form and materials. Using a range of evidence (inventories, period response, the paintings themselves), Susan Merriam shows how the pictures reconfigured the terms in which the devotional image was understood, and asked the viewer to consider in new ways how pictures are made and experienced.
Susan Merriam is Assistant Professor in the Division of the Arts at Bard College, USA.
