Liedtke, Walter A., Michiel C. Plomp, & Axel Rüger, "Vermeer and the Delft School"
Liedtke, Walter A., Michiel C. Plomp, & Axel Rüger, "Vermeer and the Delft School"
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale Un Pr | 1981 | ISBN: 0300088485/0870999745 | English | PDF | 640 pages | 89.3 Mb
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale Un Pr | 1981 | ISBN: 0300088485/0870999745 | English | PDF | 640 pages | 89.3 Mb
Seventeenth-century Delft has often been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced a wide range of artworks, including luxurious tapestries and silver objects, as well as sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself.
The volume traces the history and culture of Delft from the 1200s through the lifetime of the city's most renowned painter, Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). Some ninety paintings (sixteen of them by Vermeer), forty drawings, and a choice selection of decorative arts are examined at length and reproduced in full color. The paintings include state portraits, history pictures, still lifes, views of palaces and church interiors, illusionistic murals, and refined genre pictures by Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. Besides magnificent still lifes, portraits and landscapes, the rich works on paper encompass exquisite drawings by Delft artists on the vellum pages of a presentation album and sketches of the town by visiting artists. Among the decorative arts are tapestries, bronze statuary, silver gilt, Delftware, and glass. Some two hundred additional works, by both Delft artists and masters from other Dutch cities, are also illustrated and discussed.
A final essay takes the reader on a walk through seventeenth-century Delft. It is accompanied by maps of the city's neighborhoods that indicate major landmarks and the homes of patrons, art dealers, and artists—who in addition to De Hooch and Vermeer, include Balthasar van der Ast, Leonaert Bramer, Carel Fabritius, Gerard Houckgeest, Michiel van Miereveld, Adam Pynacker, Jan Steen, Willem and Hendrick van Vliet, and Emmanuel de Witte.
This handsome book serves as the catalogue for the exhibition "Vermeer and the Delft School" presented from March 8 to May 27, 2001, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and from June 20 to September 16, 2001, at The National Gallery, London.
Director's Foreword
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
1. Delft and the Delft School: An Introduction
Walter Liedtke
2. Delft and the Arts before 1600
Walter Liedtke
3. Painting in Delft from 1600 to 1650
Walter Liedtke
4. Delft Painting "in Perspective": Carel Fabritius, Leonaert Bramer, and the Architectural and Townscape Painters from about 1650 Onward
Walter Liedtke
5. Genre Painting in Delft after 1650: De Hooch and Vermeer
Walter Liedtke
6. Drawing and Printmaking in Delft during the Seventeenth Century
Michiel C. Plomp
7. Society, Culture, and Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Delft
Marten Jan Bok
Catalogue
Paintings
Drawings and Prints
Decorative Arts
Tapestries
Bronzes
Silver and Silver Gilt
Delftware
Glass
Along the City Walls: An Imaginary Walk through Seventeenth-Century Delft
Michiel C. Plomp
Plans of Seventeenth-Century Delft with Locations of Major Monuments and Addresses of Artists and Patrons
Kees Kaldenbach
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
1. Delft and the Delft School: An Introduction
Walter Liedtke
2. Delft and the Arts before 1600
Walter Liedtke
3. Painting in Delft from 1600 to 1650
Walter Liedtke
4. Delft Painting "in Perspective": Carel Fabritius, Leonaert Bramer, and the Architectural and Townscape Painters from about 1650 Onward
Walter Liedtke
5. Genre Painting in Delft after 1650: De Hooch and Vermeer
Walter Liedtke
6. Drawing and Printmaking in Delft during the Seventeenth Century
Michiel C. Plomp
7. Society, Culture, and Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Delft
Marten Jan Bok
Catalogue
Paintings
Drawings and Prints
Decorative Arts
Tapestries
Bronzes
Silver and Silver Gilt
Delftware
Glass
Along the City Walls: An Imaginary Walk through Seventeenth-Century Delft
Michiel C. Plomp
Plans of Seventeenth-Century Delft with Locations of Major Monuments and Addresses of Artists and Patrons
Kees Kaldenbach
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits
Walter Liedtke is Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Michiel C. Plomp is Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Axel Rüger is Curator of Dutch Paintings at The National Gallery, London.
Michiel C. Plomp is Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Axel Rüger is Curator of Dutch Paintings at The National Gallery, London.
The Sunday Times
"… truly magnificent …"
New Statesman
"… magisterial … beautiful … unlikely to be beaten in the foreseeable future as a source of information about Vermeer and his contemporaries in Delft and The Hague."
Literary Review
"… a wonderfully comprehensive and authoritative tone …"
The Observer
" … superb … "
Library Journal
" … rich and rewarding … Destined to become a standard reference, this is among the best museum publications of the last decade."
"… truly magnificent …"
New Statesman
"… magisterial … beautiful … unlikely to be beaten in the foreseeable future as a source of information about Vermeer and his contemporaries in Delft and The Hague."
Literary Review
"… a wonderfully comprehensive and authoritative tone …"
The Observer
" … superb … "
Library Journal
" … rich and rewarding … Destined to become a standard reference, this is among the best museum publications of the last decade."
Liedtke, Walter A., Michiel C. Plomp, & Axel Rüger, "Vermeer and the Delft School"
