Emotions
Subtitle: Pain and Pleasure in Dutch Painting of the Golden Age
Publisher: NAi Uitgevers / Publishers Stichting
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9789462081703
Subjects: Painting, dutch
Description: Fear, sadness, surprise, anger, lust and love - virtuallynothing was more important in the paintings ofthe Golden Age than convincingly depicting humanemotions. In this publication, the Frans Hals Museumand Rembrandt expert Gary Schwartz present aselection of masterpieces in which these emotions aresublimely portrayed.According to seventeenth-century connoisseurs, thebeauty of a painting was not even half as importantas the passions that could be seen in that painting;they formed the soul of the work. Painters such asRembrandt, Frans Hals, Maerten van Heemskerck andCornelis van Haarlem were masters at depicting a rangeof emotions. Their works are presented in a new context- the emotional life - and with a focus on the flourishingscientific study of emotions in our own time.Emotions will be published in conjunction with the firstexhibition in the Netherlands to present this essentialcomponent of painting. 0Exhibition: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands (11.10.2014-15.02.2015).