Vermeer and the art of love / Aneta Georgievska-Shine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georgievska-Shine, Aneta, Author.

Series:

Northern lights (London, England)

Northern lights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675--Criticism and interpretation.

Vermeer, Johannes.

Love in art.

Painting, Dutch--17th century--Themes, motives.

Painting, Dutch.

Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.

Painting, Dutch--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 x 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2022.

Summary:

Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter's attentiveness to every detail within those rooms, which lends even the most mundane of objects the quality of something extraordinary.0In this engaging and beautifully illustrated book, Georgievska-Shine uncovers the ways in which Vermeer challenges the dichotomies between 'good' and 'bad' love, the sensual and the spiritual, placing him within the context of his contemporaries to give the reader a fascinating insight into his unique understanding and interpretation of the subject.

Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter's attentiveness to every detail within those rooms, which lends even the most mundane of objects the quality of something extraordinary.In this engaging and beautifully illustrated book, Georgievska-Shine uncovers the ways in which Vermeer challenges the dichotomies between 'good' and 'bad' love, the sensual and the spiritual, placing him within the context of his contemporaries to give the reader a fascinating insight into his unique understanding and interpretation of the subject.

Contents:

Part I: The varied faces of love in Dutch genre painting. Words into images

Love's rituals: merry companies to music lessons

Cupid's messengers

Hunts and conquests

Indecent proposals

The topsy-turvy family

Picturing the good home

Part II: Vermeer's difference. The reappearing cupid

Of quietness and slow time

An invitation to listen

Reading, writing, (and) imagining love

Returning the lover's gaze

Metaphysical love

The muse of unfinished history

Part I. The varied faces of love in Dutch genre painting. Words into images ; Love's rituals : merry companies to music lessons ; Cupid's messengers ; Hunts and conquests ; Indecent proposals ; The topsy-turvy family ; Picturing the good home

Part II. Vermeer's difference. The reappearing cupid ; Of quietness and slow time ; An invitation to listen ; Reading, writing, (and) imagining love ; Returning the lover's gaze ; Metaphysical love ; The muse of unfinished history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-156) and index.

ISBN:

9781848224896

1848224893

OCLC:

1263265159