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The Engagement of Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654 With the Dutch Window, A Significant Site of Neighborhood Social Exchange
dc.contributor.author | Stone-Ferrier, Linda | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-15T20:03:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-15T20:03:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Stone-Ferrier, Linda. "The Engagement of Carel Fabritius' Goldfinch 1654 with the Dutch Window, a Significant Site of Neighborhood Social Exchange." Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art JHNA 8.1 (2015): n. pag. doi:10.5092/jhna.2016.8.1.5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20679 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article posits that Carel Fabritius’s illusionistic painting The Goldfinch, 1654, cleverly traded on the experience of a passerby standing on an actual neighborhood street before a household window. In daily discourse, the window functioned as a significant site of neighborhood social exchange and social control, which official neighborhood regulations mandated. I suggest that Fabritius’s panel engaged the window’s prominent role in two possible ways. First, the trompe l’oeil painting may have been affixed to the inner jamb of an actual street-side window, where goldfinches frequently perched in both paintings and in contemporary households. Second, at another point in time, The Goldfinch appears to have functioned as a hinged protective shutter attached to an interior painting of possibly a domestic scene. Together with the encased picture, Fabritius’s panel would have hung on a household wall. In such a capacity, The Goldfinch would have evoked the viewer’s inquisitiveness, as if he or she were a passerby on a neighborhood street before an actual domestic window with an alternatively open and closed shutter. | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://www.jhna.org/index.php/vol-8-1-2016/325-stone-ferrier | en_US |
dc.title | The Engagement of Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654 With the Dutch Window, A Significant Site of Neighborhood Social Exchange | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Stone-Ferrier, Linda | |
kusw.kudepartment | History of Art | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5092/jhna.2016.8.1.5 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |