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The Resource Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art, Michael Zell, (electronic resource)

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art, Michael Zell, (electronic resource)

Label
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art
Title
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art
Statement of responsibility
Michael Zell
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a love of art--
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Assigning source
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1962-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Zell, Michael
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
  • Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Vermeer, Johannes
  • Art, Dutch
  • Gifts
Label
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art, Michael Zell, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048550647/type/BOOK
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Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
CR9789048550647
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (508 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9789463726429
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1273980662
Label
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the gift in seventeenth-century Dutch art, Michael Zell, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048550647/type/BOOK
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
CR9789048550647
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (508 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9789463726429
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1273980662

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