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Theodoor Van Der Schuer's Allegory of Human Deprivation for Leiden's
Volume 12, Issue 2 (Summer 2020) Nothing Else Than Decay: Theodoor van der Schuer’s Allegory of Human Deprivation for Leiden’s Plague Hospital Hanneke van Asperen [email protected] Recommended Citation: Hanneke van Asperen, “Nothing Else Than Decay: Theodoor van der Schuer’s Allegory of Human Deprivation for Leiden’s Plague Hospital,” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 12:2 (Summer 2020) DOI: 10.5092/jhna.12.2.4 Available at https://jhna.org/articles/seeing-outside-the-box-reexamining-the-top-of-samuel-van- hoogstratens-london-perspective-box Published by Historians of Netherlandish Art: https://hnanews.org/ Republication Guidelines: https://jhna.org/republication-guidelines/ Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. This PDF provides paragraph numbers as well as page numbers for citation purposes. ISSN: 1949-9833 Nothing Else Than Decay: Theodoor van der Schuer’s Allegory of Human Deprivation for Leiden’s Plague Hospital Hanneke van Asperen In 1682, the highly regarded artist Theodoor Cornelisz van der Schuer (1634–1707) painted a canvas for the boardroom of the plague hospital in Leiden. He transformed well-known depictions of the plague to create an image of an unspecified hos- pital in a timeless setting. More than simply an image of a hospital, the painting is also an allegory of human dependence on God. Focusing on the plague-stricken figure of Charity, the allegory visualizes moral ideas that were disseminated in a 1526 tract on poor relief written by Juan Luis Vives. -
The Grammar of Visual Design
This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children’s drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated second edition include: • new material on moving images and on colour • a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time • websites and web-based images • ideas on the future of visual communication. Reading Images focuses on the structures or ‘grammar’ of visual design – colour, perspective, framing and composition – and provides the reader with an invaluable ‘tool-kit’ for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts. Gunther Kress is Professor of English at the Institute of Education, University of London. Theo van Leeuwen has worked as a film and television producer in the Netherlands and Australia and as Professor in the Centre for Language & Communication Research at Cardiff University. He is currently Dean at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. They have both published widely in the fields of language and communication studies. Praise for the first edition ‘Reading Images is the most important book in visual communication since Jacques Bertin’s semiology of information graphics. It is both thorough and thought- provoking; a remarkable breakthrough.’ Kevin G. Barnhurst, Syracuse University, USA ‘Fresh and stimulating. -
Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox
Alison M. Kettering After Life: Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam’s Small Meat Hall in the Nes was a multi-purpose facility. The city rented space to butchers on the ground floor and to surgeons and rhetoricians up above.1 This striking juxtaposition was not lost on contempo- raries. The publisher of Claes Jansz Visscher’s 1611 topographi- cal print of Amsterdam’s two main meat halls [Fig. 1] attached a poem cleverly comparing the surgeons’ treatment of human bodies, the rhetoricians’ engagement with the human spirit, and the butchers’ work below.2 Years after Visscher’s print about the meat halls, a simi- lar juxtaposition of human with animal flesh probably struck Rembrandt as he addressed two related subjects. His splen- did Slaughtered Ox in the Louvre bears the date 1655 [Fig. 2].3 Shortly thereafter, he painted the second of his anatomy pieces, the Anatomy Lesson of Dr Jan Deijman, dated 1656 [Fig. 3], pro- duced several decades after his better known Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp (1632).4 Deijman’s corpse was Joris Fon- teijn, a thief who had been hanged on 28 January 1656. Two days later Fonteijn served as the subject for dissection in the surgeons’ Small Meat Hall theatre. Fonteijn had been arrested in the Sint-Anthoniebreestraat, Rembrandt’s own street, which made his acquaintance with the case likely. He may also have been hoping for such a commission ever since Deijman’s pro- motion to praelector of anatomy in 1653. Once the commis- sion was in hand. Rembrandt must have visited the anatomy Alison M. -
An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on Thearchaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in The16th, 17Th, and 18Th Centuries Paul R
Northeast Historical Archaeology Volume 34 From the Netherlands to New Netherland: The Archaeology of the Dutch in the Old and New Article 7 Worlds 2005 An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on theArchaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries Paul R. Huey Follow this and additional works at: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Huey, Paul R. (2005) "An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on theArchaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries," Northeast Historical Archaeology: Vol. 34 34, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol19/iss1/7 Available at: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol34/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Northeast Historical Archaeology by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact [email protected]. Northeast Historical Archaeology/Vol. 34, 2005 119 An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on the Archaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries PaulK Huey Anyone analyzing the results of archaeo Michiel H. Bartels, Janny Venema, Charles logical excavations in colonial Dutch sites, Gehring, Joseph M. Thatcher, Joseph E. whether they are in Africa, North America, the McEvoy, Robert S. Neyland, John McCashion, Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, or any other Charlotte Wilcoxen, James Bradley, Joseph area colonized by the Dutch in the 16th, 17th, Diamond, Alexandra van Dongen, Barnes & or 18th centuries, will require a basic reference Noble Booksellers of Albany, New York, the library of sources documenting the results of David Brown Book Company of Oakville, excavations of sites from the same period in Connecticut, and McIntyre and Moore, the Netherlands.