Riegl, Alois. The Group Portraiture of Holland (Texts and Documents Series). Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780892365487. [8240]
Former library copy with white spine label and stamps/date due slip within. The spine is sunned, the book appears to have set on a shelf unused, for it is nearly-new otherwise. 7 x 10 inches, 412 clean pp. Very good. Paperback.
"In The Group Portraiture of Holland, art historian Alois Riegl (1858-1905) argues that the artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holland radically altered the beholders relationship to works of art. Group portraits by artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Halls reflect an egalitarian viewpoint not found in the more hierarchically structured Italian works of the same period. First published in 1902 and here in English for the first time, the book opened up areas of inquiry that continue to engage scholars today."
