Manhood, Marriage & Mischief: Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits

ISBN-10
0823248143
ISBN-13
9780823248148
Category
Portrait painting, Dutch
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2006
Author
Harry Berger

Description

A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, 'Manhood, Marriage, & Mischief' offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations.