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Author Vries, Lyckle de, 1937- author.

Title Jacob Campo Weyerman and his collection of artists' biographies : an art critic at work / by Lyckle de Vries
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 43
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 309
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 43.
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 309.
Contents Painted and written genre scenes -- Failed artists -- Portraiture -- Art in the public sphere -- Art criticism -- Pliny, Durand and Weyerman -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Biography of Willem de Fouchier -- Appendix 2: Disquisition on the art of the ancients
Summary "Weyerman's collection of artists' biographies (1729) is exceptional for three reasons. Firstly, he includes a great number of painters not mentioned elsewhere. Secondly, he does not limit his selection to good artists only; he also discusses failed painters and their abortive careers. Thirdly, he writes as an art critic who does not hesitate to pass judgments, sometimes severe, on his chosen subjects. In the process, Weyerman provides much information on the social and economic circumstances of art production. He found that a bohemian lifestyle was pernicious to a painter's career, and argued that artists should live and think as merchants. In addition to analyzing Weyerman's art critical terminology and his ideas on art theory, De Vries includes translations of two full chapters along with the original Dutch"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 22, 2020)
Subject Weyerman, Jacob Campo, 1677-1747.
Weyerman, Jacob Campo, 1677-1747. Levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen
SUBJECT Weyerman, Jacob Campo, 1677-1747 fast
Subject Painters -- Netherlands -- Biography
Art criticism -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century
Art and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century
Art and society
Art criticism
Painters -- Biography
Netherlands
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019054292
ISBN 9789004421875
9004421874