Knowledge and practice pictured in the artist’s studio. The ‘art lover’ in the seventeenth-century Netherlands
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the long overlooked representation of the ‘art lover’, or liefhebber, in the artist’s studio in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and the ways in which the liefhebber’s image coalesced with a larger cultural discourse of connoisseurship, amateurship, and artistic practice. It situates these images in the iconographic tradition of the Flemish collector’s cabinet, and demonstrates how the values inherent to the konstkamer became part of the visual language and meaning of the studio visit. Drawing academies, manuals, and art theoretical treatises reshaped the role of the art lover in and outside of the studio, ennobling artist and art lover alike. In this way, Dutch and Flemish artists, such as Pieter Codde, Frans van Mieris and Michael Sweerts, ‘pictured’ a new form of artistic knowledge and modernized an iconographic tradition.
DOI: 10.18352/dze.10150
Author: Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Institution: Clark Art Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2593824529