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Art and Antiquity in the Netherlands and Britain: The Vernacular Arcadia of Franciscus Junius (1591-1677)

Art and Antiquity in the Netherlands and Britain: The Vernacular Arcadia of Franciscus Junius (1591-1677)

Weststeijn, Thijs

Paperback

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 9004283617
ISBN13: 9789004283619
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 13 2015
Pages: 452
Weight: 3.00
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.10 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
How did the classical tradition survive on the North Sea shores? This richly illustrated book explores the interplay between art and erudition in the seventeenth century. It analyses the sources, editions, and reception of Franciscus Junius's writings to chart how ideas about Northern European painting, from Van Dyck to Rembrandt, developed as a counterweight to the Italian tradition. Thus the language of art in Junius's The Painting of the Ancients appears to be related to his seminal work in the field of Germanic linguistics and his discovery of the shared pre-Christian civilization of Holland and England. Junius's innovative pairing of scholarship to the painter's practice illuminates the reception of antiquity and the creation of an Anglo-Dutch artistic Arcadia.

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