Lessons in art: art, education, and modes of instruction since 1500 = Lessen in kunst : kunst, onderwijs en vormen van instructie sinds 1500

Abstract

"Why, how, to whom and by whom was art taught? Lessons in Art (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, Vol. 68) provides answers to these questions by addressing the relation between art and education in the Netherlands from 1500 to the 1970s. The authors gathered in this volume consider the practical and theoretical education of artists as well as the role of art and creativity for general education within a wide societal context. They present new ways of looking at teaching materials and methods, that were devised for the education of experts, and show how art and creativity were employed as powerful didactic tools for a general audience. From early modernity to the present, education, it appears, fuels the production and perception of art"--Publisher

Contents

Lessons in art, lessons for life / Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Eric Jorink & Bart Ramakers -- Clément Perret's 'Exercitatio alphabetica' (1569). A calligraphic textbook and sample book on eloquence / Caecilie Weissert -- Aertsen, Rubens and the 'questye' in early modern painting / Koenraad Jonckheere -- 'Pathosformel' as grammar. From Lambert Lombard to Aby Warburg / Edward H. Wouk -- Paper, paint, and metal foil. How to costume a tyrant in late sixteenth-century Holland / Bart Ramakers -- An alphabet of colours. Valcooch's 'Rules' and the emergence of sense-based learning around 1600 / Ann-Sophie Lehmann -- Drawn up by a learned physician from the mouths of artisans. The 'Mayerne manuscript' revisited / Jenny Boulboullé -- Jacob van der Gracht's 'Anatomie' for artists / Erin Travers -- "Draw everything that exists in the world". 't Light Teken en Schilderkonst' and the shaping of art education in early modern northern Europe / Jaya Remond -- Rembrandt's nature. The ethics of teaching style in the Dutch Republic / Joost Keizer -- Learning in Netherlandish workshops in seventeeth-century Rome / Erin Downey -- Do it yourself! Lessons in participation in a dynamic labyrinth / Annemarie Kok.