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Manhood, marriage, & mischief : Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits / Harry Berger, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Harry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portraits, Group--Netherlands.
- Portraits, Group.
- Portrait painting, Dutch--17th century.
- Portrait painting, Dutch.
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. Night watch.
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Manhood, marriage, and mischief
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, 'Manhood, Marriage, & Mischief' offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Group portraits and the fictions of the pose
- pt. 2. Militias and marriage
- pt. 3. Picturing family values
- pt. 4. "The night watch" as homosocial pastoral.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4093-2
- 0-8232-4814-3
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