Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck
Subtitle: new research
By: edited by Stephanie S. Dickey ; with essays by: Ann Jensen Adams [and 20 others]
Contributors: Flinck, Govaert, 1615-1660
Publisher: WBOOKS
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Zwolle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789462582224
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Dutch Painting
Description: This book presents sixteen essays exploring the work of two of 17th-century Amsterdam's most ambitious painters, Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol. Museum curators, academic art historians, and conservation scientists from six different countries come together to investigate form, content, and context from a variety of perspectives. Eric Jan Slujter examines how changing patterns of patronage contributed to both artists' stylistic evolution. Hilbert Lootsma traces the rise and fall of their critical fortunes from their own time until today. Ann Jensen Adams situates their work in the shifting market for portraiture. Jasper Hillegers explores the origins of Flinck's career in the Leeuwarden studio of Lambert Jacobsz. Other authors present contextual and technical analyses of individual paintings. Portrait identities are revealed, painterly tricks uncovered, and both artists are shown to be influential teachers and members of an intellectual community in which art and theatre were closely linked. Many of these essays originated at an international conference held in preparation for the exhibition, Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol. Together, they shed new light on the methods and motivations of two artists who began as Rembrandt's acolytes but soon became his rivals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Rising stars in Rembrandt's Amsterdam  -- Stephanie Dickey -- Style in context. -- 1.; title: On diverging styles, different functions, and fame: Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, and Rembrandt as history painters  -- Eric Jan Sluijter -- 2.; title: The Lambert years: Govert Flinck in Leeuwarden, ca. 1629-ca. 1633  -- Jasper Hillegers -- 3.; title: Govert Flinck and the Houses of Orange and Brandenburg: networks and influence  -- Saskia Beranek -- Dramatic arts. -- 4.; title: Painted theatre: Flinck, Rembrandt, and other artists paint Vondel's Joseph trilogy  -- Tom van der Molen -- 5.; title: The tragic gaze: Ferdinand Bol, The death of Dido, and late seventeenth-century theatre  -- Ilona van Tuinen -- Identities recovered. -- 6.; title: A rare case of evidence: Ferdinand Bol's Portrait of an eight-year-old boy (1652) identified  -- Frans Grijzenhout and Erna E. Kok -- 7.; title: Finding an identity: Govert Flinck's Portrait of a boy (1640) in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham  -- Milou Goverde and Robert Wenley -- Technical treatments. -- 8.; title: Technical examination of Govert Flinck's Portrait of a boy (1640) in Birmingham  -- Ruth Bubb -- 9.; title: Technical examination of Govert Flinck's Double portrait of a married couple (1646) in karlsruhe  -- Ilona Schwägerl -- 10.; title: Technical analysis and conservation of Ferdinand Bol's An astronomer (1652) in London  -- Flaminia Rukavina, Marika Spring, Nelly von Aderkas, and David Peggie -- 11.; title: Ferdinand Bol's painting technique in Portrait of Jan van der Voort and his sister Catharina with a servant (1661) in Antwerp  -- Ellen Keppens and Jill Keppens -- Legacy and reception. -- 12.; title: The relationship between Govert Flinck and Jürgen Ovens  -- Patrick Larsen -- 13.; title: Cornelis Bisschop in Dordrecht: between Ferdinand Bol and Nicolaes Maes  -- Justus Lange -- 14.; title: From stars to satellites: the reputation of Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol from their time to ours  -- Hilbert Lootsma -- 15.; title: Hiding in plain sight: textual insights into market analysis and attribution of portraits by Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol -- Ann Jensen Adams.