Sumptuous Memories : Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Tomb Sculpture

by Scholten, Frits

• ISBN13: 9789040094750
• ISBN10: 9040094756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd

Summary

"Although the conditions for a flourishing art of sculpture in the Netherlands received a serious setback after the Iconoclasm and the Reformation, around 100 sculpted sepulchral monuments were nevertheless erected in the 17th century, ranging from simple memorials to completely free-standing tombs. Behind these remarkable works of art lies a world of prominent patrons and first-class sculptors, of major financial investments and costly materials, of status and personal sorrow." "The patronage of this funerary sculpture is the thread running through this book - the first detailed study of 17th-centry Dutch sculpture for more than 50 years. Who ordered these monuments and why? Who were the artists involved and how did they organise their work? What were the functions and meanings of this sepulchral sculpture? What were the costs involved in erecting the tombs, and how were they viewed by the 17th-century public? These and other questions are examined from various different angles."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Frits Scholten in Senior Curator of Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(4)
Introduction: Dutch post-Reformation tombs	9	(64)
Pious heroes: the De Keyser workshop and the evolution of the Protestant tomb	73	(40)
Francois Dieussart, Constantijn Huygens, and the classical ideal in funerary sculpture	113	(32)
The apotheosis of an admiral: Bartholomeus Eggers and the tomb for Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam	145	(34)
Good widows and the sleeping dead: Rombout Verhulst and tombs for the Dutch aristocracy	179	(32)
Epilogue: tomb tourists and funerary antiquaries	211	(21)
Bibliography	232	(12)
Notes	244	(24)
Index	268	(3)
Photographic credits	271