AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Dutch interiors of the Golden Age deconstructed.(Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, exhibition)(Brief Article)
The history of interior decoration as it pertains to Continental, English, and American domestic spaces has been the subject of scholarly inquiry for many years. More recently scholars have mined period documents, paintings, prints, and drawings for information about the arrangement of rooms from the Middle Ages onward. Most of these findings have been published, but with the advice that the sources should be used with caution since they can embroider considerably on the truth.
An intriguing exhibition currently on view and its excellent catalogue contribute much new information about one aspect of the subject. Entitled Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, the exhibition is on view at the Newark Museum in New Jersey until January 20, 2002. It then travels to the Denver Art Museum, where it may be seen from March 2 to May 22, 2002. Major funding for the Newark showing was provided by Pfizer. The guest curator of the exhibition is Mariet Westermann, who is the principal author of the catalogue, which also contains contributions by W. Willemijn Fock, Eric Jan Sluijter, and H. Perry Chapman. The 142 objects on view include paintings, works on paper, ceramics, metalwork, glass, furniture, and textiles made in the seventeenth century.
Historians of economics have estimated that some five million paintings were executed in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century and that interior views and still lifes comprised at least ten percent of this output, or about five hundred thousand works. The meticulous rendering of the accouterments of the interiors shown in portraits, genre paintings, and paintings of interiors is what we find so appealing. In reality, however, these renderings reflect a healthy dose of artistic license on the part of the painters.
Because these works are so expertly painted, we tend to believe that the artist was looking at the exact scene he recorded. Even the ...
- An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art &...
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Adams, Ann Jensen June 22, 2003 700+ words
...Mariet Westermann. Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt. Zwolle...setting against setting. Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt is the catalogue...Westermann for the Denver Art Museum and Newark Museum. In addition to entries on neatly...
- Art and Home examined in Dutch interiors exhibit. (Denver).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art Business News March 1, 2002 700+ words
SHOW FACTS "Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt" Through May 22 Denver Art Museum Address...paintings and domestic objects in the exhibit "Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt." Now on view at the Denver Art Museum...
- Bank of America Charitable Foundation Announces a Donation of $1 Million to The...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire May 2, 2007 700+ words
...Announces a Donation of $1 Million to The Newark Museum(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...million to support the expansion of The Newark Museum's educational facilities, classrooms...Newark Black Film Festival. "The Newark Museum is a critical cultural resource for...
- Bank of America Charitable Foundation Donates $1 Million to Increase Capacity...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 1, 2007 700+ words
...million to support the expansion of The Newark Museum's educational facilities, classrooms...20050720/CLW086LOGO-b ) "The Newark Museum is a critical cultural resource for...private sector. Institutions like The Newark Museum are key to the ongoing revitalization...
- Cross-cultural bling at the Newark Museum.(Exhibits)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Jewelers Circular Keystone April 1, 2004 700+ words
...three different departments of the Newark Museum in New Jersey have created a far...Krueger-Christie's Foundation. The Newark Museum is open Wednesdays through Sundays...visit www.NewarkMuseum.org. The Newark Museum, 49 Washington St., Newark, NJ...
- A century of ceramics and glass.(exhibition of 19th and 20th century...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt April 1, 2000 700+ words
...between 1880 and 1980 is on view at the Newark Museum in New Jersey until June 18. Entitled...of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Newark Museum. The show was organized by Charles...Abrams and is available either from the Newark Museum bookstore at 800-768-7386, extension...
- Group portraits in Picturing America at the Newark Museum.(Newark, NJ)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques CONNOR, HOLLY PYNE April 1, 2001 700+ words
On May 6, the Newark Museum will open its newly installed American Art Galleries with a groundbreaking...contemporary dress and settings. This article examines ten of the Newark Museum's outstanding group portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth...
- 'Unbounded' is the first in a series of centennial exhibitions at The Newark...
- Magazine article from: Art Business News April 1, 2009 700+ words
NEWARK, NJ -- The Newark Museum's global approach to contemporary art is currently being highlighted...the world. All of the works are from the collection of The Newark Museum, and many are new acquisitions. On view through Aug. 16...