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Title
Michael Sweerts (1618-1664)
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Shaping the artist and the academy in Rome and Brussels
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (Author)
Subject
Sweerts, Michiel, 1618-1664
Painters--Belgium--Biography (LCSH)
Painting, Flemish--17th century (LCSH)
Art--Study and teaching--Belgium--Brussels (LCSH)
Art--Study and teaching--Italy--Rome (LCSH)
Brussels (Belgium)--Intellectual life--17th century (LCSH)
Rome (Italy)--Intellectual life--17th century (LCSH)
Genre Form
Biographies (LCGFT)
Language
English (eng)
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
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Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: ND673.S95 Y43 2015 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 700-9492 full
Supplementary Content
bibliography (bibliography)
index (index)
Content
text (txt)
still image (sti)
Summary
This book examines the career of the Brussels artist Michael Sweerts through an examination of the artistic, intellectual and cultural contexts that shaped his work and academy in the Netherlands and Italy in the seventeenth century. The Flemish artist Michael Sweerts has long been considered one of the most fascinating and enigmatic painters of the seventeenth century. His peripatetic career, which stretched from his native Brussels to Rome, and later Amsterdam and the Far East, included work for the papal family and the foundation of a drawing academy in the Southern Netherlands. Despite this rich and varied career, Sweerts has yet to be fully examined within the artistic, intellectual and cultural contexts of Brussels and Rome in the seventeenth century. This book aims to retrace the artistic traditions that shaped Sweerts' development and evolution as a painter, etcher and teacher, firmly situating him at the crossroads of artistic exchange between the Netherlands and Italy. The author demonstrates how Sweerts responded to contemporary notions of artistic practice and pedagogy in his work, and how he played a critical role in the formation of a Netherlandish academic tradition.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
An overview of Sweerts' career and his paintings of artists at work
The emergence of the academy in Italy
Karel van Mander and the early Netherlandish academic tradition
Sweerts and the academy in the second half of the seventeenth century
Sweerts in art historical scholarship
Sweerts in the southern Netherlands
Early modern academic traditions and Classicism in the Netherlands
Chapters
Sweerts and a Brussels artistic tradition
Brussels in perspective: a brief history
The artistic fabric of the Brussels court
Wenzel Coebergher and the Italian tradition
The classical tradition in the sixteenth-century Netherlands
Theodoor van Loon: a Brussels 'Apelles'
Beyond Brussels: Sweerts and Jacob van Oost the Elder
The tradition of Brussels tapestry: its artistic and economic importance
Sweerts and the Duets family: textiles, art and patronage
Sweerts' merchant patrons
Roman beginnings
Sweerts' arrival in Rome
The Italian academic tradition and the first academies of art
The Carracci academy and Fialetti's didactic drawing book
The founding of the Accademia di San Luca and the role of Federico Zuccaro
The pedagogical program at the Accademia di San Luca
Sweerts and the Academia di San Luca
François Duquesnoy, Nicholas Poussin and the patronage of the Pamphilj
Duquesnoy's pursuit of the antique and his friendship with Poussin
Sweerts' representation of Duquesnoy's sculpture in the studio
Sweerts and the circle of artists around Camillo Pamphilj
Sweerts and Poussin: images of plague
Sweerts and a Pamphilj Academy
Sweerts' drawing academy, tapestry and Brussels in the 1650s
'Een accademie van die teeckeninge naer het leven'
Netherlandish academic models
Sweerts' academic paintings and etchings in Brussels
Sweerts' drawing book: 'diverse faces for the use by young and others'
- The academy at mid-century
Brussels and southern Netherlands in the second half of the seventeenth century
Leopold Wilhelm as Patron and David Teniers II's role at court
Sweerts' Academy and Brussels tapestry in the 1650s
David Teniers II and the beginnings of an academy of art in Antwerp
The rise of academicism in the Netherlands in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
Authorized Access Point
Yeager-Crasselt, Lara Michael Sweerts (1618-1664)
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