National Gallery of Art – Painting in the Dutch Golden Age

Автор: National Gallery of Art
Название книги: Painting in the Dutch Golden Age
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Живопись и Графический дизайн
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This book is one component of the Painting in the Dutch Golden Age teaching packet. Other elements include:
• twenty slides
• twelve 11 x 14 color reproductions
• cd with jpeg image files of every National Gallery work of art reproduced here
• separate classroom activity guide
Dimensions of works of art are given in centimeters followed by inches; height precedes width.

This book introduces teachers of middle school students and up to seventeenth-century Dutch culture and its early influence in North America. Three introductory chapters, “Profile of the Dutch Republic,” “A Golden Age for the Arts,” and “Life in the City and Countryside,” provide an overview. Next
are five sections on the types of painting strongly associated with Dutch art of the Golden Age: “Landscape Painting,” “Genre Painting,” “Still-Life Painting,”
“Portraiture,” and “History Painting.” Dutch paintings of the time presumably offer snapshots of what Dutch life was like, but in fact they contained
an equal measure of reality and artifice. Dutch artists broke with conventions and took liberties to create images that reflected their republic’s socially conservative, yet worldly, aspirations. The result was a vast body of work enormously original in approach and varied in subject matter.

Dutch artists also continued efforts, begun during the Renaissance, to elevate the status of art beyond its associations with lesser trades and to restructure the guild system. Patrons and artists discussed the fine points of composition, technique, and ways in which art engaged the attentions of the viewer. This connoisseurship (addressed in the section “Talking about Pictures”) spurred the founding of specialized art academies and a new “business”
of art.

Within the chapters, “In Focus” sections look more deeply at individual works in the National Gallery of Art’s collection. These discussions crystallize
key chapter concepts. You will also find multipage special-topic features that address such subjects as “America’s Dutch Heritage” and “Flowers and
Flower Painting.” The book also includes a timeline, a listing of resources, both printed and online, and a glossary.

We hope you find this packet a useful resource for engaging students on such subjects as world history, the founding of the United States, visual and
cultural analysis, geography, world religion, and social studies. We welcome your comments and questions.