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This book presents a complete biography of David Teniers along with
a detailed analysis of his style in various periods of his career.
It discusses the artists who influenced Teniers and those he
influenced, containing material about the painters with whom
Teniers collaborated.
For some time there has existed a need for a new account of the
life and stylistic development of David Teniers the Younger
(1610-1690). This need is made all the more obvious by the fact
that Adolf Rosenberg's book, writ-ten in 1898, remains a most
complete study of Teniers. 1 De Peyre's Biogra-phie Critique of
1910 added little information not already published by Rosenberg.2
A number of recent articles have dealt with various aspects of
Teniers's life or style, but none has been entirely satisfactory. 5
Some are incomplete; others contain errors gleaned from earlier
sources. None has dealt with the artist's stylistic evolution from
his early works to the works of the mature Teniers.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European
governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous
paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William
Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C.
Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane
Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund
exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources
like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine
passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were
being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped
the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling
discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.
Devils, ghosts, poltergeists, werewolves, and witches are all
covered in this book about the "dark side" of supernatural beliefs
in early modern Europe, tapping period literature, folklore, art,
and scholarly writings in its investigation. The dark side of early
modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical
significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that
were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers
and artists like William Shakespeare and Albrecht Durer depicted
the dark side in their work, and some of the first printed books in
Europe were about witches. The pervasive representation of these
monsters and apparitions in period literature, folklore, and art
clearly reflects their power to inspire fear and superstition, but
also demonstrates how integral they were to early modern European
culture. This unique book addresses topics of the supernatural
within the context of the early modern period in Europe, covering
"mythical" entities such as devils, witches, ghosts, poltergeists,
and werewolves in detail and examining how they fit in with the
emerging new scientific method of the time. This unique combination
of cultural studies for the period is ideal for undergraduate
students and general readers. Illustrations from rare books on
witchcraft and demonology An annotated bibliography of primary and
secondary sources Appendices address early modern supernatural art
and artists who depicted the dark side as well as important
historical individuals
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