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The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708

Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
ID 350058
Slug the-life-of-romeyn-de-hooghe-1645-1708-henk-van-nierop
Contributors
Author : HENK VAN NIEROP
Annotation
Description This is the first book-length biography of Romeyn de Hooghe, the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The study narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism. Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and king William III. This study, the first book-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism. Traditionally regarded as a godless rogue, and more recently as an exponent of the Radical Enlightenment, de Hooghe emerges in this study as a successful entrepreneur, a social climber, and an Orangist spin doctor. A study in seventeenth-century political culture and patronage, focusing on spin and slander, this book explores how artists, politicians, and hacks employed literature and the visual arts in political discourse, and tried to capture their readership with satire, mockery, fun, and laughter.
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685 Nieuwe geschiedenis (1500-1870) NUR
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Publisher Amsterdam University Press B.V.
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Language eng
Page count 452
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Publication date first 2018-10-15
Publication date latest 2019-09-19
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  • ISBN: 9789462981386 (BB)
  • ISBN: 9789463725101 (BC)

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