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Author Brienen, Rebecca Parker, author.

Title Visions of savage paradise : Albert Eckhout, court painter in colonial Dutch Brazil / Rebecca Parker Brienen
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction -- Albert Eckhout (ca. 1607-1665/6): Portrait and Still-life Painter at Johan Maurits's Brazilian Court -- 'To Reproduce Nature Itself as Perfectly as Possible': The Brazilian Natural History Drawings of Albert Eckhout -- Cannibalizing America: From the Ethnographic Impulse to the Ethnographic Portrait -- Between the Savage and the Civilized: Eckhout's Brasilianen and Tapuyas -- Black, Brown, and Yellow: Eckhout's Paintings of Africans, Mestizos, and Mulattos -- Eckhout's Paintings: Location and Interpretation -- Conclusion -- Colour Plates --Appendix A: Chronological Overview of Albert Eckhout's Life -- Appendix B: Works of Art by Albert Eckhout
Summary The first major book-length study of the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout examining his fascinating works of art
Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor's project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout's works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic. -- Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-278) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Eeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664.
Eeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664 -- Travel -- Brazil
SUBJECT Eeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664 fast
Eeckhout, Albert van den. swd
Subject Indians in art.
Art styles not defined by date.
ART -- History -- General.
Indians in art
Travel
Malerei
Schilderijen.
História natural -- Brasil.
Invasões holandesas.
SUBJECT Brazil -- In art
Subject Brazil
Neuholland Brasilien
Brazilië.
Nederland.
Genre/Form Art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781429454698
1429454695
1280958456
9781280958458
9789048505548
9048505542
9786610958450
6610958459