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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Amsterdam University Press
- Date of Publication 21 June 2026
- ISBN 9789463724876
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 280x240 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
In this book, Margriet van Eikema Hommes, in search of an explanation for this ceiling painting’s intriguing origins, investigates its meaning and purpose. The painter and his patron prove to have been jointly responsible for the iconography, which they repeatedly updated to reflect military and political events in the Disaster Year.
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In 1672, when the Dutch Republic was under simultaneous attack by four foreign armies, Gerard de Lairesse created a magnificent three-part ceiling painting for one of the main protagonists of this Disaster Year—the powerful former burgomaster of Amsterdam, Andries de Graeff. Technical examination has revealed that Lairesse repeatedly altered his composition and in no fewer than four successive stages, he changed, removed or added figures and objects.
In this book, Margriet van Eikema Hommes, in search of an explanation for this ceiling painting’s intriguing origins, investigates its meaning and purpose. The painter and his patron prove to have been jointly responsible for the iconography, which they repeatedly updated to reflect military and political events in the Disaster Year and the dramatic twists of fate in De Graeff’s own life.
This beautifully illustrated book not only situates the work within its cultural and historical context but also offers an in-depth examination of Lairesse’s painting technique and the way he meticulously designed his ceiling pieces in close dialogue with the architecture of the room.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements, Preface, Chapter 1: A matter of freedom. The changes and significance of De Graeff’s ceiling painting, Chapter 2: Dynamic skies. Pictorial aspects and original placing of Lairesses ceiling paintings, Chapter 3: Lairesse’s painting technique for ceiling paintings, Endnotes, Biography, Appendix: Brief building history of Huis de Graeff, Index
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