Art and Antiquity in the Netherlands and Britain : The Vernacular Arcadia of Franciscus Junius (1591-1677).

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Franciscus Junius' Vernacular Arcadia -- "An Extremely Learned and Famous Man" -- Painting and Philology in the Netherlands -- Artistic Terms in Latin and in the Vernacular -- Junius in the European "Republic of Painting" -- Chapter 1 "Transform this Age into a Golden One": Junius and the Arundel Collection -- Dutch Art in England: The Arundel Circle -- Antiquarianism in Britain and the Netherlands -- The Genesis of The Painting of the Ancients -- Arundel's Paper Museum -- The Gentleman's Exercise: Civil Conversations about Art -- Chapter 2 More than a Paraphrase: The Painting of the Ancients in Latin, English, and Dutch -- "More than Paraphrastic License" -- Differences in Terminology -- Junius, Van Hoogstraten, De Lairesse, and Rembrandt -- "Polishing" and "Demarcating" the Vernacular -- Chapter 3 Dutch and English Antiquity: The Germanic Origins of Art -- The Germanic Languages as Languages of Art -- Germanic Iconography -- Germanic Style -- Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis -- Aftermath: The Saxon Gods at Stowe -- Chapter 4 Actualizing the Ancients: Junius, Vossius, Lampsonius -- The Neo-Latin Tradition of Art Theory -- The Four Popular Arts -- The Concept of Graphein -- Painting and Rhetoric -- Actualizing the Ancients -- The "Father of Painting in the Netherlands": Lambert Lombard -- Classical Scholarship and the Painter's Studio: A Vernacular Symbiosis -- Chapter 5 The Painter's Right Hand: Teghenwoordigheydt and the Presence of Painting -- The Reception of Junius' Ideas among Artists -- Painting and Ekphrasis -- Presence, or Teghenwoordigheydt -- "As if the artist were present" -- The Beholder's Presence -- The Artistic Experience: A Mental Activity for Both Artist and Viewer -- Conclusion: From Mimesis to Imagination.

Imagination and Lifelikeness -- "A Hidden Room": Art as a Shelter from Conflict -- Coda: The Presence of the Past as an Aesthetic Ideal -- Appendices -- Gerardus Johannes Vossius, De graphice, sive de arte pingendi (part of De quator artibus popularibus, Amsterdam 1650) -- Table 1: Contents of Junius' The Painting of the Ancients -- Table 2: The Reception of Junius' Treatise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Table 3: Major Differences between the English and Dutch Editions -- Table 4: Terminology in the Dutch Edition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.

How did the classical tradition survive on the North Sea shores? This book explores the writings of Franciscus Junius that paired scholarship to painter's practice in the seventeenth century. They illuminate the reception of antiquity and the creation of an Anglo-Dutch artistic Arcadia.

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