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The book is a study on Dutch painting, drawing and printmaking of the 17th century, focused on interlocking its descriptive realism with the visual strategy of illusion. The author analyzes this relationship as a conjunction rather than an opposition. Illusionistic compositional devices were current not only in mythological, biblical and allegorical images but also in proper realistic representations of the world. At the same time, many visual inventions, which included illusionistic concepts, were presented with persuasive realism of the forms. Thus, different seventeenth-century Dutch artists – such as Hendrick Goltzius, Hendrick Vroom, Rembrandt, Vermeer – attempted to produce «open images» and to conduct a visual game with their beholders.



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Art history – Dutch art of the seventeenth century – Rembrandt – Vermeer – Hendrick Goltzius – Hendrick Vroom – Illusion – Realism

Illusion and Realism – The Game with the

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 08/09/2017
      ISBN13: 9783631668535, 978-3631668535
      ISBN10: 3631668538

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The book is a study on Dutch painting, drawing and printmaking of the 17th century, focused on interlocking its descriptive realism with the visual strategy of illusion. The author analyzes this relationship as a conjunction rather than an opposition. Illusionistic compositional devices were current not only in mythological, biblical and allegorical images but also in proper realistic representations of the world. At the same time, many visual inventions, which included illusionistic concepts, were presented with persuasive realism of the forms. Thus, different seventeenth-century Dutch artists – such as Hendrick Goltzius, Hendrick Vroom, Rembrandt, Vermeer – attempted to produce «open images» and to conduct a visual game with their beholders.



      Table of Contents

      Art history – Dutch art of the seventeenth century – Rembrandt – Vermeer – Hendrick Goltzius – Hendrick Vroom – Illusion – Realism

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