Judith Noorman

Art, Honor and Success in The Dutch Republic (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the interrelationship between Jacob van Loo's art, honor, and career, this book argues that Van Loo's lifelong success and unblemished reputation were by no means incompatible, as art historians have long assumed, with his specialization in painting nudes and his conviction for manslaughter. Van Loo's iconographic specialty - the nude - allowed his clientele to present themselves as judges of beauty and display their mastery of decorum, while his portraiture perfectly expressed his clients' social and political ambitions. Van Loo's honor explains why his success lasted a lifetime, whereas that of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer did not. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book reinterprets the manslaughter case as a sign that Van Loo's elite patrons recognized him as a gentleman and highly-esteemed artist. Uniquely, this book: - redefines Van Loo's place within, and contribution to, the Golden Age of Dutch painting, consistently discussing Van Loo in relation to his contemporaries; - demonstrates that honor was a precondition for artistic success; - allows new insight into the relation between honor, artistic success and socially acceptable behavior, particularly of artists in the Dutch Golden Age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040784884
• Artikelnr.: 75563280

Autorenporträt

Judith Noorman is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam and leads the Dutch Research Council project The Female Impact, 2021-2026. As Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Studies in Early Modernity, she has organized the Object Colloquia Series, which laid the foundation for this book.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Life
The State of Flanders: Where Wolves Outnumbered Men
The Hague
The Affluent Bachelor
Settling Down
Moving Up
Great Success
Manslaughter
Starting Over in Saint-Germain
The Royal Academy
The Ambassador Artist
Founder of the Van Loo Dynasty
Chapter 2 - Artistic Output
Training
Studio Practice
Authenticity
History on a Grand Scale
Cabinet Pictures
Fashionable Portraiture
Paris
1661-70
Chapter 3 - Clientele
Archival Data
Clientele
Portraiture in Amsterdam
Figure Paintings in Amsterdam
Portraits in Paris
Enduring Relationships
The Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family
The Huygens Family
Chapter 4 - The Academic Nude and its Audience
Documentary Evidence on Amsterdam's Academies
European Art Academies
The Theory of 'Welstant'
The Surviving Academic Drawings
Two Groups of Academic Draftsmen
Empathy versus 'Welstant'
Dutch Classicism: The Art of Standing Well
Van Loo's Academic Mode
An Audience for the Academic Nude
Chapter 5 - The Manslaughter Case
Homicide: A Matter of Honor
31 October 1660
Van Loo's Legal Case
Pardon Ante Sententiam
Friendship
Van Loo's 'Honorable' Homicide
Support from the Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family
'His Reputation regarding his Morality'
Homicide in a European Context
Appendices
A List of Works
B List of Early Owners
C Transcriptions
Notes
Bibliography
List of illustrations
Photocredits
Index