Gerard de Lairesse

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“…Beeswax and honey have long been traded, beeswax to long-distance networks, and honey to more local markets (see De Vries 1992). The bees (Apis dorsata), generally wild, nest in the tops of high trees (often Koompassia excelsa, tapang or tanyit; and Lithocarpus sundaicus) whichlocal people preserve when burning fields.…”

Section: Forest Products and Tradementioning

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Forest, resources and people in Bulungan: elements for a history of settlement, trade and social dynamics in Borneo, 1880-2000

Sellato¹

2001

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Section: Forest Products and Tradementioning

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Forest, resources and people in Bulungan: elements for a history of settlement, trade and social dynamics in Borneo, 1880-2000

Sellato¹

2001

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“…His instructions for iconography are therefore linked to the practice of designing a composition. 108 Lairesse considers it essential that a viewer can deduce from decorations the room for which they were intended. The choice of subjects for the Soestdijk paintings were preeminently suited to their intended locations and modified to harmonize with the interior.…”

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Pen and Paint: The Painting Technique in Gerard de Lairesse’s Bacchus and Ariadne as Compared to the Principles Expounded in His Groot Schilderboek

Blok¹

2020

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“…Both Lairesse and van der Schuer worked for the stadtholder and his court. 37 Further, the hospital's regents may well have pointed out Lairesse's paintings to van der Schuer. As we have seen, the town's magistrates had already turned to other cities in their search for models on organizing charity: Leiden's town council had raised the money for the pesthouse with a lottery, following Delft's example, and the layout of Leiden's plague hospital had been modeled after Amsterdam's plague house.…”

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Nothing Else Than Decay: Theodoor van der Schuer’s Allegory of Human Deprivation for Leiden’s Plague Hospital

Asperen¹

2020

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In 1682, the highly regarded artist Theodoor Cornelisz van der Schuer (1634-1707) painted a canvas for the boardroom of the plague hospital in Leiden. He transformed well-known depictions of the plague to create an image of an unspecified hospital in a timeless setting. More than simply an image of a hospital, the painting is also an allegory of human dependence on God. Focusing on the plague-stricken figure of Charity, the allegory visualizes moral ideas that were disseminated in a 1526 tract on poor relief written by Juan Luis Vives. In the painting, the plague becomes a symbol of human deprivation, and by depicting Charity as a plague victim, van der Schuer projects the idea that humility is an essential part of charity. Since Vives was widely known throughout the seventeenth century, we may assume that his ideas were familiar to the hospital's regents. And although van der Schuer disguises Charity as a plague victim, visitors to the boardroom probably recognized the personification nevertheless. Images of Charity were ubiquitous, especially in the context of hospitals, where they reflected the actions of the regents donating their time and dedicating their skills to the destitute. In reality, the hospital probably did not ever house plague victims; although the disease remained a constant threat, the institution served different kinds of patients. Combining a scene of the plague with a broad-reaching allegory, the painting proved relevant for decades to come.

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Gerard de Lairesse

Cited by 9 publications

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Forest, resources and people in Bulungan: elements for a history of settlement, trade and social dynamics in Borneo, 1880-2000

Forest, resources and people in Bulungan: elements for a history of settlement, trade and social dynamics in Borneo, 1880-2000

Pen and Paint: The Painting Technique in Gerard de Lairesse’s Bacchus and Ariadne as Compared to the Principles Expounded in His Groot Schilderboek

Nothing Else Than Decay: Theodoor van der Schuer’s Allegory of Human Deprivation for Leiden’s Plague Hospital

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