Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting First English Translation, with Introduction and Commentary
Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[...
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Boston
Brill
2022
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| ISBN: | 9789004508385, 9004523073, 9789004523074, 9004508384 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- About the Author -- Introduction "'Pictura's Cornerstone': Karel van Mander and His Foundation of the Noble, free Art of Painting" -- 1. The Intertextual Network of Dedicatory Epistles and Prefaces -- 2. The Sources, Title-Page, and Scope of the Grondt -- 3. Laying a Comparative Foundation for the Schilder-Boeck -- 4. Key Terms and Critical Categories -- a. Schilder -- b. Manier -- c. Uyt zijn selven doen -- d. Welstandt -- e. Leven and Gheest -- f. Wel schilderen -- 5. Ekphrastic Usage in the Schilder-Boeck -- 6. Landtschap and byvoechsel: Van Mander on Landcape and History, Simulation and Dissimulation -- 7. Précis: The Poem's Fourteen Chapters -- Den Grondt: The Foundation of the Noble, free Art of Painting: In which her form, origin, and nature are placed before the eyes of inquisitive Youth, in discrete Parts, in Rhymed Verse. -- "Prefaces and Selected Preliminary Poems" -- Chapter 1: "Exhortation, or Admonition to up and coming young Painters" -- Chapter 2: "On Drawing, or the Art of Delineating" -- Chapter 3: "Analogy, Proportion, or measurement of the Parts of a Human Body" -- Chapter 4: "On the Attitude, Decorum, and Decorous Motion of a Human Figure" -- Chapter 5: "On the Ordonnance and Invention of Histories" -- Chapter 6: "Portrayal of the Affects, Passions, Desires, and Sorrows of Persons" -- Chapter 7: "On Reflection, Reverberation, re-reflected luster, or re-reflection" -- Chapter 8: "On Landscape" -- Chapter 9: "On Cattle, Animals, and Birds" -- Chapter 10: "On Fabrics or Drapery" -- Chapter 11: "On Sorting and Combining Colors" -- Chapter 12: "On Painting Well, or Coloring" -- Chapter 13: "On the Origin, Nature, Force, and Effect of Colors" -- Chapter 14: "On the Interpretation of Colors, and What They Can Signify"
- Register of Commonplaces: "Table of the Foundation of the Art of Painting" -- Commentary