Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits

by Harry Berger Jr.

Book Overview

A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations.

The introduction picks out anomalous touches with which Rembrandt problematizes standard group-portrait...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823225577
• ISBN13: 9780823225576
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.0"