How to become a Picture: Theatricality as Strategy in Seventeenth‐Century Dutch Portraits

van Eck, Caroline (editor) / Bussels, Stijn (editor) / Grootenboer, Hanneke (author)

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture ; 120-133

Art History Book Series

2011-04-14

14 pages

9781444396744 , 9781444339024

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396744.ch9

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

theatricality in portraiture, allowing a exposition ‐ of the sitter through which a sense of self is constructed , reality of status in seventeenth‐century Dutch portraiture ‐ Joanna Woodall, saying a changing conception of nobility, lies at the roots of this development in Dutch portrait , theatricality as strategy in seventeenth‐century Dutch portraits , Michael Sweerts, in 1656 ‐ painting a portrait of an unknown man, leaning over a writing table, his head resting on his right hand , Theatricality (1972), Elizabeth Burns's book ‐ theatricality to perception, behaviour a kind of grammar of rhetorical and authenticating conventions , Sweerts' painting, and theatricality ‐ and profound dualism in the body , Sweerts' painting, in context of Renaissance painting ‐ ‘augmented portrait’ with clues as emblems, objects, or mottos on scrolls or ledges, of the sitter's character , De Bolla, and idea of eighteenth‐century portraits ‐ mirrors of the self in a culture, and narcissism , understanding of theatricality ‐ transcending notion of theatre, Theatricality as Medium (2004) by Samuel Weber, conceptualized in the West , theatricality, forsaking confines ‐ of theatron, the shift Weber observes from theatre to theatricality of two centuries