Temporality and the seventeenth-century Dutch portrait
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | A group of seventeenth-century Dutch portraits depict their subjects awkwardly hunched or bent over, many in the process of rising from a chair. These appear to contradict the upright posture and graceful movement promoted by early modern conduct books. They may be understood, however, in light of the pressures to more precisely measure time that were being promoted in commercial circles and the debates concerning the nature of time raging in academic ones. This article argues that instead of awkwardness or lack of social grace, seventeenth-century viewers must have experienced the momentary quality of these portraits as intensifying the presence of the portrayed and reducing the psychological barrier created by the painted portrait as a physical object |
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