{"product_id":"9781848225466","title":"Godefridus Schalcken : A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune by Wayne Franits","description":"Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of  Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entire  artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken  (1643-1706). It examines the artist's paintings and career trajectory against  the background of his ceaseless pursuit of fame and fortune. Combining a  comprehensive analysis of Schalcken's artistic development and style with our  increasing biographical knowledge, it provides an authoritative overview of  Schalcken's ample production as an artist. It also integrates his art into  the circumstances of his life in relation to his ambitious career  aspirations, exploring how economic conditions, a concomitantly oversaturated  art market, talent and ambition, demographics, and even sheer luck all played  a role in Schalcken's great professional success. Since Schalcken's art,  like that of all Dutch painters, provides a plethora of information about  seventeenth-century culture-its predilections, its prejudices, indeed, its  very mind-set-the book inevitably links his work to the broader  socio-cultural contexts in which it was created.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308482441589,"sku":"9781848225466","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848225466.jpg?v=1762807744","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781848225466","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}