Beauty and Simplicity
The Power of Fine Art in Moral Teaching On Education in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6080315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeroen J H Dekker (0009-0004-6469-4715, University of Groningen, Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-188 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199008328377 |
| PMID | 19618555 |
| OpenAlex | W2156961467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Seventeenth century Dutch genre painting played a major role in the promotion of the pursuit of family and educational virtues. Packing moralistic messages in fine paintings was considered as a very effective moralistic communication policy in a culture in which sending such moralising messages was very popular. The flourishing art market supplied great numbers of moralising paintings and drawings on education and domestic virtues, so contributing to the reconciliation of the existing tensions, or, in the words of Simon Schama, embarrassment between beauty and the promoted virtues of frugality and simplicity. A broad middle class created its own private surrounding in which morality and enjoying the beauty of moralising on the family and parenting went together, as is made clear by the analysis of a series of representative images. Dutch parents, moralists, and painters knew the power of beauty in moralising on the family
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Epistemology · Moral education · Moral order · Pedagogy · Simplicity · Social science · Sociology · Classical Studies and Philology · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |