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San Francisco. Exhibit: Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video: California College Of The Arts/Wattis Institute Of Contemporary Art, Logan Galleries, Dore Bowen
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Archaism And The Critique Of Caravaggio In The Religious Paintings Of Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Natasha Seaman
Archaism And The Critique Of Caravaggio In The Religious Paintings Of Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Natasha Seaman
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During his twelve-year career, the Utrecht painter Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629) embedded northern archaic content into works otherwise remarkable for their aspirations to contemporaneity and cosmopolitanism. Although ter Brugghen's archaism has been long noted, its study has been arrested at its diagnosis. My dissertation considers these elements as having an interpretive as well as a formal impact. Ter Brugghen's secular oeuvre is sizable, but archaism occurs uniquely in his religious works. This specificity of application not only connects these major works to the complex religious climate of Utrecht, well known for its confessional diversity after 1581, but also sheds light …