Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art / / Michael Zell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Zell, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Gift and Art in Early Modernity --; 2. Art as Gift in the Dutch Republic --; 3. Rembrandt’s Art as Gift --; 4. Art and Leisure: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation --; 5. For the Love of Art: Vermeer and the Poetics of the Gift --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048550647; 9783110743227; 9783110743357; 9783110753790; 9783110754032
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048550647?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Zell.

This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a "love of art," not materialistic gain. In the merchant republic's vibrant market for art, networks of gift relations and the anti-economic rhetoric of the gift mingled with the growing dimension of commerce, revealing a unique chapter in the interconnected history of gift giving and art making.