1. Introduction of the lectures, introduction to the history of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, basic concepts 2. Life in towns and countryside - cultural and historical excursion, introduction to painting specialisations, painters inside churches, in markets, in public services, country people and townspeople, love and folly, food 3. Dutch landscape painting I - landscapes of harmony, winter scenes, nocturnes, cities, marinas, tonal landscapes, classical landscapes, italising landscapes, plein air drawing 4. Dutch landscape painting II - Mannerist landscape painting, early realistic landscape painting, tonal landscape painting, classical landscape painting 5. Genre painting I - ambiguities and nuances, poetry of everyday life 6. Genre painting II - 1609-1648, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag; 1648-1672, Leiden, Haarlem, Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Rotterdam; 1672-1702, Leiden, Delft 7. Still life painting 8. Portrait painting 9. Historical painting 10. Rembrandt van Rijn 11. Rembrandt van Rijn and his students and followers 12. Theorists and theories of 17th century painting in the Netherlands 13. Dutch and Flemish artists in Central Europe in the 17th century
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The lectures will introduce the peak period of Flemish and Dutch painting. In addition to the art-historical aspects that distinguish the Catholic South (Flanders, Brabant, Luxembourg, etc.) and the Calvinist North (the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands), cultural and historical aspects will be examined. In the 17th century, the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands became the most progressive and wealthy country in Europe, trading with the whole of the then known world. Visual art and painting in particular mirrored the status and wealth of the society. The lectures will present the demands and tastes of the merchants and bourgeoisie as well as the aristocracy who were doing business and getting rich. All is expressed on the canvases of the painters with overlaps into the historical, social and economic spheres.
Basic orientation in the field of Dutch art of the 17th century. Understanding the developmental specifics of the territory and their influence on visual arts.
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