Main entry:

Melion, Walter S.

Title & Author:

Shaping the Netherlandish canon : Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck / Walter S. Melion.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Description:

xxiii, 359 pages, 90 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-347) and index.
Introduction: The Affinity of History and Landscape -- 1. The Argument of Format -- 2. The Netherlandish Response to the Ancients -- 3. The Play of Critical Categories -- 4. Local Usages: Netticheydt, Affecten, and Reflexy-Const -- 5. Biography as the Prism of Netherlandish Concerns -- 6. Establishing the Contingency of Vasari's Arts of Disegno -- 7. Revising the Vite -- 8. Assimilating the Tuscan Canon -- 9. Van Mander and the Circle of Abraham Ortelius: Lucas de Heere and Marcus van Vaernewyck on the Visual Arts -- 10. Lampsonius and Lombard: Assembling the Northern Canon -- 11. Van Mander and Lampsonius: Further Commonalities of Discourse -- 12. Ortelius and Van Mander on Viewing the Art of Pieter Bruegel.

Summary:

A treatise on Dutch art on par with Vasari's critical history of Italian art, Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck (or Book on Picturing) has long been recognized for its critical and historical influence--and yet, until now, no comprehensive account of the book's conception, aims, and impact has been available. In this in-depth analysis of the content and context of Van Mander's work, Walter S. Melion reveals the Schilder-Boeck's central importance to an understanding of northern Renaissance and Baroque art. By interpreting the terminology employed in the Schilder-Boeck, Melion establishes the text's relationship to past and contemporary art theory. Van Mander is seen here developing his critical categories and then applying them to Ancient, Italian, and Netherlandish artists in order to mark changes within a culture and to characterize excellence for each region. Thus Melion demonstrates how Van Mander revised both the structure and critical language of Vasari's Lives to refute the Italian's claims for the superiority of the Tuscan style, and to clarify northern artistic traditions and the concerns of Netherlandish artists. A much needed corrective to the view that Dutch art of the period was lacking in theory, Melion's work offers a compelling account of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theoretical and critical perspective and shows how this perspective suggests a rereading of northern art.

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ISBN:

0226519597
9780226519593

Subject:

Mander, Carel van, 1548-1606. Schilderboek.
Mander, Carel van, 1548-1606 Knowledge and learning.
Mander, Carel van, 1548-1606. Schilder-boek.
Mander, Carel van, 1548-1606
Mander, Karel van 1548-1606
Mander, Carel van 1548-1606 Het schilder-boek
Bruegel, Pieter de Oudere 1525-1569
Mander, Carl van; Schilder-Boeck
Mander, Carel van, 1548-1606 Knowledge Art.
Van Mander, Karel. Le livre des peintres
Schilderboek (Mander, Carel van)
Painters Netherlands Biography.
Painters Belgium Biography.
Peintres Pays-Bas Biographies.
Peintres Belgique Biographies.
Art
Painters
Malerei
Theorie
Het schilder-boeck (Van Mander)
Canon.
Schilderkunst.
Kunstschilders.
Biografieën.
Belgium
Netherlands
Paintings

Form/genre:

Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87774
Call No.: ID ND37.M272 M4; ID:95-B4289
Status: Available