The Engagement of Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654 With the Dutch Window, A Significant Site of Neighborhood Social Exchange
This article posits that Carel Fabritius’s illusionistic painting The Goldfinch, 1654, cleverly traded on the experience of a passerby standing on an actual neighborhood street before a household window. In daily discourse, the window functioned as a significant site of neighborhood social exchange and social control, which official neighborhood regulations mandated. I suggest that Fabritius’s panel engaged the window’s prominent role in two possible ways. First, the trompe l’oeil painting may have been affixed to the inner jamb of an actual street-side window, where goldfinches frequently per... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27451204 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20679 |