Table Of ContentLos Angeles is a city on the Pacific Rim where things appear on edge, for
they lack a permanent footing even while occupying a specific locale.
The city's genius loci produces this dual vision of fixed place in a state
of constant dislocation.
It is only appropriate for the edge-bound Getty Center to initiate a
series of publications that aim to expose the historical study of artifacts to
the oscillation of rigorous debate. Each of these books proceeds from a
specific body of historical material, not because that material is in itself
inherently imbued with controversy but because its exposure to different
disciplinary approaches raises new questions of interpretation. In the
realm of historical studies, issues often emerge at the intersection of the
various perspectives scholars have constructed for the examination of
their subjects. As their debate refracts and refocuses the material under
scrutiny, it also invites reflection upon itself and thereby exposes the
assumptions and tendencies of scholarship to no less assiduous criticism
than it does the underpinnings of its subjects.
Volumes in the series ISSUES & DEBATES will result from symposia
and lecture series, as well as from commissioned writings. Their scholarly
editors are invited to frame highly focused essays with introductions,
commentaries, and/or sources, documents, and illustrations that further
contribute to their usefulness.
ISSUES & DEBATES
A Series of the Getty Center Publication Programs
Julia Bloomfield, Kurt W. Forster, Thomas K Reese, Editors
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Art in history
History in art
The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
ISSUES & DEBATES
Art in history
History in art
Studies in seventeenth-century Dutch culture
Edited by David Freedberg and Jan de Vries
Art in History/History in Art
Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture
Edited by David Freedberg and Jan de Vries
This volume, the first title in the series ISSUES & DEBATES, evolved from
the symposium entitled "Art in History: History in Art," which was held at
the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica,
California, 30 April-2 May 1987.
The Getty Center Publication Programs
Julia Bloomfield, Kurt W. Forster, Thomas F. Reese, Editors
Lynne Hockman, Michelle Ghaffari, Hadley Soutter, Manuscript Editors
Copy Editor, Lois Nesbitt
Consultant for Dutch Language, Anne-Mieke Halbrook
Translators for essays by Eric J. Sluijter and Lyckle de Vries,
Kist Kilian Communications
Cover: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Danae, 1636.
Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum.
Published by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities,
Santa Monica, CA 90401-1455
© 1991 by The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
All rights reserved. Published 1991
Printed in the United States of America
97 96 95 94 93 92 91 7654321
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Art in history/history in art : studies in seventeenth-century Dutch culture /
edited by David Freedberg and Jan de Vries.
p. cm. - (Issues &. debates)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-89236-201-4 : $55.00. - ISBN 0-89236-200-6 (pbk.) : $29.95
1. Art and society-Netherlands. 2. Realism in art-Netherlands.
3. Painting, Dutch. 4. Painting, Modern-17th-18th centuries-Netherlands.
5. Netherlands-Civilization-17th century. 6. Netherlands-Intellectual
life-17th century. I. Freedberg, David. II. De Vries, Jan, 1943 Nov. 14-
III. Title: Art in history. IV. Title: History in art. V. Series.
N72.S6A746 1991
701'.03'0949209032-dc20 91-13351
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
Jan de Vries
7 Art in History
Gary Schwartz
17 History in Art
/. W. Smit
PART I: ART AND REALITY
29 Market Scenes As Viewed by an Art Historian
Linda Stone-Ferrier
59 Market Scenes As Viewed by a Plant Biologist
Willem A. Brandenburg
75 Marine Paintings and the History of Shipbuilding
Richard W. Unger
95 Skies and Reality in Dutch Landscape
John Walsh
119 Some Notes on Interpretation
E. de Jongh
139 Are These Girls Really So Neat? On Kitchen Scenes
and Method
Jochen Becker
175 Didactic and Disguised Meanings?
Several Seventeenth-Century Texts on Painting and
the Iconological Approach to Northern Dutch
Paintings of This Period
Eric J. S luij ter
209 The Changing Face of Realism
Lyckle de Vries
PART II: ART, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY
249 Art History
Jan de Vries
285 The Volume and Value of Paintings in Holland at
the Time of the Dutch Republic
Ad van der Woude
331 Works of Art in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam:
An Analysis of Subjects and Attributions
John Michael Montias
CONCLUSION
377 Science, Commerce, and Art: Neglected Topics at the
Junction of History and Art History
David Freedberg
429 Biographical Notes on the Authors
431 Index
