Appel à contribution : « On Failure: Error and Defeat in Netherlandish Art, 1500-now », Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck, vol. 76, date limite le 15 mars 2024
The seventeenth century has long been understood as a period of extraordinary economic growth and cultural, scientific and geographic expansion, a model for success that once was given the title of Golden Age. To foreign visitors, the Dutch were exemplary nation builders brimming with optimism, which was manifested in portraits of ambitious burghers, landscapes showing land reclamation, and seascapes featuring victorious war fleets. These are some of the ways in which people articulated success. The...