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Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painters: Absence and Presence

Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painters: Absence and Presence

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Series: Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Book 18

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ISBN10: 9004724575
ISBN13: 9789004724570
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 6 2025
Pages: 22
Language: English
In the early modern Dutch Republic, plaster casts offered artists a way to overcome limitations of space and time, and to define themselves. This book presents the first comprehensive account of the impact of plaster casts on the artistic practice, intellectual endeavors, and social status of seventeenth-century Dutch painters.
These modest objects were, in fact, real works of sculpture, incorporated into a variety of compositions where they signalled an artist's ambitions and technical virtuosity. Marginalized in the history of Dutch art, plaster casts lie at the center of this study's novel interpretations of paintings and drawings, paired with period sources.

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