Jacob Campo Weyerman and His Collection of Artists' Biographies - An Art Critic at Work

Weyerman's art critical jargon and ideas on art theory are analysed in this study of his artists' biographies (1729). Weyerman pays much attention to the artists' lifestyle. They should live and think as merchants: a bohemian life style, he found, was pernicious.

About the author

Lyckle de Vries (*1937) retired from Groningen University in 2000. Apart from writing monographic studies on 17th-century Dutch artists, he analysed contemporary printed sources on Dutch art and art theory, Gerard de Lairesse (1998, 2011), and Johan van Gool (1990).

Product details

• Authors: Lyckle de Vries
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2020
• EAN: 9789004421806
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42180-6
• No. of pages: 398
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history