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Publication : “Art, Honor and Success in The Dutch Republic : The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo”.

NOORMAN Judith, Art, Honor and Success in The Dutch Republic : The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo, Amsterdam, Amsterdam university press, 2020, 312 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

Focusing on the interrelationship between Jacob van Loo’s art, honor, and career, this book argues that Van Loo’s lifelong success and unblemished reputation were by no means incompatible, as art historians have long assumed, with his specialization in painting nudes and his conviction for manslaughter. Van Loo’s iconographic specialty – the nude – allowed his clientele to present themselves as judges of beauty and display their mastery of decorum, while his portraiture perfectly expressed his clients’ social and political ambitions. Van Loo’s honor explains why his success lasted a lifetime, whereas that of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer did not. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book reinterprets the manslaughter case as a sign that Van Loo’s elite patrons recognized him as a gentleman and highly-esteemed artist.

 

Judith Noorman is a Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Recently, she guest curated the exhibition Rembrandt’s Naked Truth. Drawing Nude Models in the Golden Age (Rembrandt House Museum, 2016).

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Maxime Georges Métraux (6 avril 2020). Publication : “Art, Honor and Success in The Dutch Republic : The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo”. Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 27 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p6zj


Maxime Georges Métraux

Doctorant en Histoire de l'art moderne (Université Paris IV –Sorbonne, Centre André Chastel – UMR 8150). Expert pour la galerie Hubert Duchemin et chargé d’enseignement à l'Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Commissaire scientifique de l’exposition "Chic Emprise : Cultures, usages et sociabilités du tabac du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle" (22 juin - 23 septembre 2019) au musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle.

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