- Publisher:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Online publication date:
- October 2021
- Print publication year:
- 2021
- Online ISBN:
- 9789048550647
- Subjects:
- Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Latin American History
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This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a love of art
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