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From Criminal to Courtier : The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672

The art of the Netherlands (Dutch and Flemish) is unique in Early Modern Europe in its concern for military cruelty against civilians, principally the peasantry. Decimated by time and changes in taste, this popular iconography proves varied and extensive, stretching from Bruegel to and past Rubens....

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Main Author: Kunzle, David (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL , 2002
Series:Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
History of Warfare 10
Online Access:DOI
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: From Criminal to Courtier : The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672
Author Notes:David Kunzle
CRLB-Bib.:Kunzle, Soldier in Art, 2002
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Dutch between Militarism and Anti-Militarism in the "Century of the Soldier"
  • Part One (1550-1600): Spanish Herod, Dutch Innocents
  • Ch. 1 Massacre of the Innocents in Literature and Art circa 1300 to 1550
  • Ch. 2 Vermeyen's Tapestry Series on the Conquest of Tunis by Charles V
  • Ch. 3 The Great Repression under Charles V and Philip II
  • Ch. 4 Two Massacres of the Innocents and a Census in Bethlehem by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Ch. 5 Maarten van Heemskerck: A Pacifist in Art
  • Ch. 6 Spanish Herod, Dutch Innocents: Anti-Spanish Satires 1569-1578
  • Ch. 7 Massacres in France: The Roman Triumvirate, Saint Bartholomew's Day
  • Ch. 8 Massacre and Plunder in Late Sixteenth-Century Landscape
  • Ch. 9 Haarlem and the War 1578-1600: Patriotic Works by Goltzius, Jacques de Gheyn, Cornelis van Haarlem, and Karel van Mander
  • Part Two (1600-1650): New War, Old Plundering
  • Ch. 10 Plundering: The Written Record
  • Ch. 11 New Landscape, Old Plundering
  • Ch. 12 Transacting the Plunder
  • Ch. 13 Rubens: Man of Peace or Man of War?
  • Part Three (1600-1670): The Good Soldier (Soldier as Courtier)
  • Ch. 14 The Soldier Redeemed: Siege Maps
  • Ch. 15 The Magnanimous Soldier: The Continence of Scipio Africanus
  • Ch. 16 The Ideal Soldier: The Civic Guard Company Paintings
  • Ch. 17 The Gallant Soldier: Gerard Ter Borch in Deventer 1650s-60s
  • Continuation: 1648-1998
  • Bibliography
  • Index.