Frans Hals /
Frans Hals /
Bart Cornelis, Friso Lammertse, Justine Rinnooy Kan, Jaap van der Veen.
- London ; Amsterdam : National Gallery Global ; Rijksmuseum, 2023.
- 219 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, 30 September 2023 - 21 January 2024; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 16 February - 9 June 2024; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 12 July - 3 November 2024.
Includes bibliographical references (pp.204-210) and index.
Honoured and famed / Friso Lammertse and Bart Cornelis The life of Frans Hals / Jaap van der Veen Antwerp and Haarlem / Friso Lammertse and Jaap van der Veen The studio / Friso Lammertse and Jaap van der Veen Portraiture into art / Bart Cornelis Portrait prints / Justine Rinnooy Kan Laughter / Friso Lammertse
An illuminating study of the singularly gifted Dutch artist Frans Hals, a true revolutionary in the field of portraiture and one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. Offers a fresh scholarly appraisal of Frans Hals, with essays covering all the important aspects of Hals’s oeuvre, including his militia paintings, his spectacular family portraits and his depictions of laughter: he was one of very few artists throughout the history of Western painting who successfully managed to paint people smiling and laughing. The texts also provide an overview of the artist’s life, and examine his extraordinarily virtuoso technique, which involved painting extremely fast straight on to the canvas. The authors set out to place Hals and his work firmly in the context of his time, employing new previously unpublished archival research and technical findings. For the first time, an overview is given of all the apprentices who worked for Hals. Other themes, such as the design for portrait prints or the humour seen in the works of Frans Hals, have never before been treated separately.
9781857097122
Hals, Frans, 1584-1666 --Exhibitions
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, 30 September 2023 - 21 January 2024; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 16 February - 9 June 2024; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 12 July - 3 November 2024.
Includes bibliographical references (pp.204-210) and index.
Honoured and famed / Friso Lammertse and Bart Cornelis The life of Frans Hals / Jaap van der Veen Antwerp and Haarlem / Friso Lammertse and Jaap van der Veen The studio / Friso Lammertse and Jaap van der Veen Portraiture into art / Bart Cornelis Portrait prints / Justine Rinnooy Kan Laughter / Friso Lammertse
An illuminating study of the singularly gifted Dutch artist Frans Hals, a true revolutionary in the field of portraiture and one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. Offers a fresh scholarly appraisal of Frans Hals, with essays covering all the important aspects of Hals’s oeuvre, including his militia paintings, his spectacular family portraits and his depictions of laughter: he was one of very few artists throughout the history of Western painting who successfully managed to paint people smiling and laughing. The texts also provide an overview of the artist’s life, and examine his extraordinarily virtuoso technique, which involved painting extremely fast straight on to the canvas. The authors set out to place Hals and his work firmly in the context of his time, employing new previously unpublished archival research and technical findings. For the first time, an overview is given of all the apprentices who worked for Hals. Other themes, such as the design for portrait prints or the humour seen in the works of Frans Hals, have never before been treated separately.
9781857097122
Hals, Frans, 1584-1666 --Exhibitions