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ISBN 9780773532755 November 2007
As a painter of portraits and histories in Amsterdam, Jan van Noordt was successful and well connected. With this publication, his oeuvre is at last defined.
It gains considerable interest as it reflects a prevailing trend in Amsterdam's art at midcentury to approximate Flemish models, particularly Jacob Jordaens. However, Van Noordt also found models, for both composition and inventive expressiveness, in the works of Rembrandt, Jacob Backer, and Pieter Lastman. In his later paintings from the 1670s, Van Noordt used a rougher style of paint application and a nuanced tonality, in contrast to his earlier glossy canvases. He was thus independent of a general tendency to avoid pronounced and loose impasto, which derives from Rembrandt's painterly style. In his subjects from the Old Testament, Roman history, and European Literature, he sought moral exemplars that have wide resonance with Dutch culture. The topics Van Noordt selected, such as David in triumph, Susanna, Cloelia, Scipio, and Granida and Daifilo, are not uncommon, but he interpreted the narrative possibilities in original ways to distinguish his own work from his models. This study fills an important gap in the history of painting in Amsterdam. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above.– A. Golahny, Lycoming College
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