Art and Antiquity in the Netherlands and Britain - The Vernacular Arcadia of Franciscus Junius (1591-1677)

How did the classical tradition survive on the North Sea shores? This richly illustrated book explores the interplay between art and erudition in the seventeenth century. It analyses the sources, editions, and reception of Franciscus Junius's writings to chart how ideas about Northern European painting, from Van Dyck to Rembrandt, developed as a counterweight to the Italian tradition. Thus the language of art in Junius's The Painting of the Ancients appears to be related to his seminal work in the field of Germanic linguistics and his discovery of the shared pre-Christian civilization of Holland and England. Junius's innovative pairing of scholarship to the painter's practice illuminates the reception of antiquity and the creation of an Anglo-Dutch artistic Arcadia.

About the author

Thijs Weststeijn is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on seventeenth-century art and theory, including The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (2013) and The Visible World (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Thijs Weststeijn
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2015
• EAN: 9789004283619
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28361-9
• No. of pages: 478
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 665 g
• Series: Studies in Netherlandish Art a; Brill
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history