Coloring the Narrative: Color Symbolism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

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dc.contributor.advisorWheelock, Arthur Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorHanson, Brighton Kelleyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-16T06:30:22Z
dc.date.available2010-01-16T06:30:22Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractNumerous attributes grace the allegorical personifications in Cesare Ripa's 1593 Iconologia; included among these are colored gowns. In the seventeenth-century, Karel van Mander, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Gesina ter Borch also write of the symbolism found in color. However, such color symbolism is rarely mentioned in modern interpretations of Dutch narrative paintings. Three case studies seek to test the applicability and limitations of color symbolism as an interpretative tool in narrative paintings by Karel van Mander, Samuel van Hoogstraten and Gerard ter Borch. In these, color symbolism provides the meaning behind decorum when interpreted through figures' garments. The appendix contains a comparative chart of the color symbolism in texts by Cesare Ripa, Karel van Mander, Justus de Harduijn, Gesina ter Borch, and Samuel van Hoogstraten.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9790
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcolor symbolismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGerard ter Borchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGesina ter Borchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledKarel van Manderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSamuel van Hoogstratenen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledseventeenth-century Dutch paintingen_US
dc.titleColoring the Narrative: Color Symbolism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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