The portraitist : Frans Hals and his world
Nadler, Steven M., 1958-2022
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Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, & his style transformed ideas & expectations about what portraiture can do & what a painting should look like. Hals was a member of the great trifecta of Dutch Baroque painters alongside Rembrandt & Vermeer, & he was the portraitist of choice for entrepreneurs, merchants, professionals, theologians, intellectuals, militiamen, & even his fellow artists in the Dutch Golden Age. His works, with their visible brush strokes & bold execution, lacked the fine detail & smooth finish common among his peers, & some dismissed his works as sloppy & unfinished. But for others, they were fresh & exciting. Steven Nadler gives us a full-length biography of Hals & offers a view into 17th-century Haarlem & this culturally rich era of the Dutch Republic.
Main title:
The portraitist : Frans Hals and his world / Steven Nadler.
Author:
Nadler, Steven M., 1958-, author
Imprint:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Collation:
360 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226698366 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
759.9492759.949 NADL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2320096
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