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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814022903321

Autore

Brienen Rebecca Parker

Titolo

Visions of savage paradise : Albert Eckhout, court painter in colonial Dutch Brazil / / Rebecca Parker Brienen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-280-95845-6

9786610958450

90-485-0554-2

1-4294-5469-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (288 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Classificazione

21.02

Altri autori (Persone)

EeckhoutAlbert van der <active 1637-1664.>

Disciplina

759.9492.E26

Soggetti

Indians in art

Brazil In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Albert Eckhout (ca. 1607-1665/6): Portrait and Still-life Painter at Johan Maurits's Brazilian Court; 2 'To Reproduce Nature Itself as Perfectly as Possible': The Brazilian Natural History Drawings of Albert Eckhout; 3 Cannibalizing America: From the Ethnographic Impulse to the Ethnographic Portrait; 4 Between the Savage and the Civilized: Eckhout's Brasilianen and Tapuyas; 5 Black, Brown, and Yellow: Eckhout's Paintings of Africans, Mestizos, and Mulattos; 6 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index; List of Illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

The first major book-length study of the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout examining his fascinating works of art