Università Roma Tre

Course title: 17th-century Dutch Painting. Works and contexts from Frans Hals to Vermeer

For the preparation for the exam it is necessary the critical study of

a) At least one of the following text: Ghislain Kieft, I Paesi Bassi settentrionali: arte, mestiere e committenza nel secolo d'oro, in La pittura nei Paesi Bassi, a cura di B.W.Meijer, Milano, Electa, 1997, tomo II, pp. 409-522 (scaricabile) or Mariette Westermann, The Art of the Dutch Republic. 1585-1718, New York, Harry Abrams, 1996.

b) at least one of the followings bools (or better all!): Svetlana Alpers, Arte del descrivere. Scienza e pittura nel Seicento olandese, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, ed. 1999; Simon Shama, Il disagio dell'abbondanza. La cultura olandese dell'epoca d'oro, Milano, Mondadori, ed.1993 o successive; Svetlana Alpers, L'officina di Rembrandt. L'atelier e il mercato, Torino, Einaudi, ed.2006; Daniel Arasse, L'ambizione di Vermeer, Torino, Einaudi, ed. 2006; Marco Mascolo, Rembrandt. Un artista nell'Europa del Seicento, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
c)At least one of the following text:
- Eric Jan Sluijter, How Rembrandt surpassed the Ancients, Italians and Rubens as Master of “the Passions of the Soul”’, in, Batavian Phlegm? The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern Times, a cura di H. Roodenburg and C. Santing, "BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review", 129, no. 2 , 2014, pp. 63-89. (scaricabile sul sito http://www.ericjansluijter.nl/publications/)
- Eric Jan Sluijter, On Brabant Rubbish, Economic Competition, Artistic Rivalry and the Growth of the Market for Paintings in the First Decades of the Seventeenth Century, in "Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art", 1, 2009, n. 2 ( http://jhna.org/index.php/ )
- A.McNeil Kettering, Ter Borch’s ladies in satin, in Looking at seventeenth-century Dutch art, a cura di W.Franits, 1997, pp. 98-115. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_hnr9sLU5-Bel96R2pOQ3Z3YTQ/edit?usp=sharing
oppure, in alternativa, una tesina su un dipinto presentato nelle lezioni (concordata con la docente e consegnata per mail almeno una settimana prima dell'appello d'esame)
d) didactic material, consisting of the ppts of the slides projected during the lessons and available on the blog at the address, following the research indications contained there (for example: the lessons on Rembrandt should be studied by checking the site rembrandtdatabase.org, those on Vermeer by exploring, and you will enjoy, the site http://www.essentialvermeer.com/).
Students taking the course for 6 CFUs may avoid point (c).
Non-attending students must add to this syllabus (with the exception of item d which is precluded to them) the in-depth study of a second text from those listed in item b) and must read all the essays listed in item c).