Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 68 (2018)

Why, how, to whom and by whom was art taught? Lessons in Art (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, Vol 68) provides new answers to these questions by addressing the relation between art and education in the Netherlands from 1500 to the 1970s. The authors gathered in this volume consider the practical education of artists within a wide societal context. They present new ways of looking at teaching materials and methods and show how art was employed as a powerful teaching aid. From early-modernity to the present, education, it appears, fuels the production and perception of art.

Table of Contents

1.Ann-Sophie Lehmann & Bart Ramakers, Introduction

2.Caecilie Weissert, Cl ment Perret's Exercitatio alphabetica (1569). A calligraphic textbook and sample book on eloquence

3.Koen Jonckheere, Aertsen, Rubens and the questye in early modern painting

4.Edward H. Wouk, From Lambert Lombard to Aby Warburg. Pathosformel as grammar

5.Bart Ramakers, Paper, paint, and metal foil. How to costume a tyrant in late sixteenth century Holland

6.Jenny Boulboull , Drawn up by a learned physician from the mouths of artisans. The Mayerne manuscript revisited

7.Erin Travers, Jacob van der Gracht's Anatomie for artists

8.Julie Remond, 'Draw everything that exists in the world'. 't Light der Teken en Schilderkonst and the shaping of art education in early modern northern Europe

9.Ann-Sophie Lehmann, An alphabet of colours. Painting as practice and metaphor in seventeenth-century pedagogy

10.Joost Keizer, Rembrandt's nature. The ethics of teaching style in the Dutch Republic

11.Erin Downey, Learning in Netherlandish workshops in seventeenth-century Rome

12.Annemarie Kok, Do it yourself Lessons in participation in a dynamic labyrinth in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam