The Group Portraiture of Holland

428 Pages·2000·102.98 MB·English

by  Alois Riegl, Evelyn m. Kain, Wolfgang Kemp

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The Group
Portraiture
ofHolland
Published by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Alois Riegl
The
Group
Portraiture
of
Holland
The Group Portraiture of Holland
Alois Riegl
Introduction by Wolfgang Kemp
Translations by Evelyn M. Kain and David Britt
Texts 8 Documents
The Getty Research Institute Publications and Exhibitions Program
Texts & Documents
Julia Bloomfield, Kurt W. Forster, Harry F. Mallgrave, Thomas F. Reese,
Michael S. Roth, and Salvatore Settis, Editors
The Group Portraiture of Holland
Margaret Olin, Editorial Consultant
David Britt, Translation Consultant
Steven Lindberg, Manuscript Editor
Alois Riegl's "Das hollandische Gruppenportrat," Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen
Sammlungen des allerho'chsten Kaiserhauses 23, nos. 3-4 (1902): 71-278, was translated
by Evelyn M. Kain
Wolfgang Kemp's introduction was translated by David Britt
Published by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
© 1999 by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
All rights reserved. Published 1999
Printed in the United States of America
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Cover: Dirk Jacobsz., Group Portrait of the Amsterdam Musketeers' Civic Guard, 1534
(detail). Saint Petersburg, Hermitage. See fig. 15
Frontispiece: Jan Tengnagel, Banquet of Seventeen Members of the Crossbowmen's Civic
Guard Company of Captain Geurt van Beuningen, 1613 (detail). Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
See fig. 36
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905.
[Holla'ndische Gruppenportrat. English]
The group portraiture of Holland / Alois Riegl; introduction by Wolfgang Kemp;
translations by Evelyn M. Kain and David Britt
p. cm. - (Texts & documents)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-89236-548-X (pbk.)
1. Portraits, Group- Netherlands. 2. Portrait painting, Dutch.
3. Portrait painting - 16th century - Netherlands.
4. Portrait painting- 17th century- Netherlands.
I. Title. II. Series.
ND1319.R4513 1999
757'.6'09492-dc21 99-26062
CIP
Contents
1 Introduction
Wolfgang Kemp
The Group Portraiture of Holland
61 Preface
67 The Early Stages
101 The First Period of Group Portraiture in Holland, 1529-1566
173 The Second Period of Group Portraiture in Holland, 1580-1624
239 The Third Period of Group Portraiture in Holland, 1624-1662
368 Notes
377 Illustration Credits
384 Bibliography of Works by Alois Riegl
393 Index
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