Cleanliness and Dirtiness in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting

Diplôme Thèse Cleanliness and Dirtiness in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting eng 2024-12-07 2024-12-07 author Rochard Lucie 906661 director Blanc Jan 0000-0002-2091-2520 711546 director Maës Gaëtane 553 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:183631 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1836319 L. 1163 The Dutch and Flemish obsession with cleanliness in the seventeenth century is a well-known cliché, both in modern research and for people travelling in Flanders and in the Netherlands at the time. As a result, cleanliness is often brushed aside in Dutch and Flemish studies and seen as a platitude or a triviality. However, concerns for cleanliness at the time were at the core of an important cultural construction, so much so that the dichotomy between cleanliness and dirtiness seems to have shaped a significant part of Dutch and Flemish literature and visual culture. More than that, the words 'cleanliness' and 'dirtiness' were also used at the time in art criticism and writings on painting. Focusing mostly on daily-life scenes, which can be seen as a link between real life, pictorial representation and artistic practices, this work tackles the importance of cleanliness and dirtiness in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting, at each stage of the making of a picture and in the way painters think about their own practice. This study follows a cross-disciplinary method, combining art history, cultural and material history, as well as social history, and aims, <i>inter alia</i>, at understanding how these pictures, born from Dutch and Flemish culture, interrogate this culture in return. A broader perspective was also adopted with significant research into art theory, by confronting Dutch and Flemish texts between themselves, but also with European art theory. Thèse en cotutelle avec l’Université de Lille Cleanliness Dirtiness Flemish painting Dutch painting 17th century Anthropology of art Art theory Dewey 700 91 Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie 3I false 98fc9d64-76ef-44ee-8262-f2b87b9fb0c0 Unité d'histoire de l'art 78f84093-1e00-42aa-b57f-2fc9a9b8f9f7 Thesis Restricted L_Rochard_Thèse_Version_mise_en_lig.pdf 76838971 application/pdf Private 2026-12-07 7da45fafe5ccd0530ded19f29c1cfd9b2a7399a00c31d15ce700f9e2324734f6 64fda58c-44c7-46d4-8945-a1f8002ac7f3 Imprimatur Public Imprimatur_signé_ROCHARD.pdf 51528 application/pdf 2f6d544f04eef73771deb9682c6906e7d85b4e5a648a2feca53d6e8a68029ea9 4289855f-efa4-49c0-94ba-501a6b9bda99 Summary Public Thèse_-_Résumé.pdf 53679 application/pdf CC BY-NC-SA-4.0 4b5ef59302d03042b7f3e0c25b7e7f5ea4a8a9abf4a1492bb97f9002d6d56a4c Vignette Public Cover.png 465315 image/png openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie

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