Lyckle de Vries

Painted and written genre scenes -- Failed artists -- Portraiture -- Art in the public sphere -- Art criticism -- Pliny, Durand and Weyerman -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Biography of Willem de Fouchier -- Appendix 2: Disquisition on the art of the ancients.

An Art Critic at Work

Jacob Campo Weyerman and His Collection of Artists' Biographies

Thomas F. Heck

M. A. Katritzky

Tom Heck

R. L. Erenstein

A. William Smith

Frank Peeters

Heck traces the idea of icono-graphia from its distant Greek roots down to today's trendy world of icons and iconographies; he also provides a concise introduction to musical iconography. Robert Erenstein discusses the rise of theatre iconography with some choice Dutch examples. Frank Peeters and A.

The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice

Picturing Performance

"Weyerman's collection of artists' biographies (1729) is exceptional for three reasons. Firstly, he includes a great number of painters not mentioned elsewhere. Secondly, he does not limit his selection to good artists only; he also discusses failed painters and their abortive careers. Thirdly, he writes as an art critic who does not hesitate to pass judgments, sometimes severe, on his chosen subjects. In the process, Weyerman provides much information on the social and economic circumstances of art production. He found that a bohemian lifestyle was pernicious to a painter's career, and argued that artists should live and think as merchants. In addition to analyzing Weyerman's art critical terminology and his ideas on art theory, De Vries includes translations of two full chapters along with the original Dutch"--

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