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Celebrating in the Golden Age

Celebrating in the Golden Age Film, Art & Culture

Celebrating in the Golden Age

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After the highly successful 'Haarlem: The Cradle of the Golden Age' exhibition, the Frans Hals Museum is turning its attention to painted festivities from the seventeenth century. Celebrating in the Golden Age is the publication that accompanies the eponymous exhibition, a lavish volume that offers a surprising glimpse of people making merry, seen through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch masters. Celebrating in the Golden Age provides the first overview of various seventeenth-century revels in paintings. It acquaints readers with some of the very finest examples and sheds new light on the clothes, the poses and expressions of the figures, the artistic challenges facing the painters and the culture of humour and celebration in the seventeenth century. In their colourful paintings, artists like Frans Hals, Dirck Hals, Jan Miense Molenaer and Jan Steen depicted all manner of merrymaking people and high-spirited companies, ranging from peasant festivities and carnivals to elaborate al fresco parties, rhetoricians' processions and civic guard banquets. These festive scenes often have witty yet barbed undertones. They show people laughing infectiously, merry fancy dress parties and elegant manners, but also uninhibited debauchery and comical contrasts between rich and poor. Parties were an exceptionally popular subject in paintings of the Golden Age, a period when more contemporary festivities were depicted than ever before.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2012-02-29
Publication Date:
2012-02-29
Publisher:
NAI010 PUBL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9056628356
ISBN13:
9789056628352
Weight:
994 g
Height:
238 cm
Width:
286 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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