{"title":"Larry Silver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLarry Silver\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into European art, with a particular focus on Dutch and Flemish traditions. His works illuminate cultural themes such as the portrayal of old age and the nuances of folly in visual art, inviting readers to reconsider familiar masterpieces through a fresh lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDelving deep into historical contexts, Silver’s books blend scholarly rigour with accessible narrative, making them essential for anyone interested in the intersections of art, society, and history. 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His attempts to establish himself with the powerful court at The Hague failed, however, and the final decade of his life was marked by financial hardship and personal tragedy.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRembrandt's Holland\u003c\/i\u003e considers anew the life and work of this celebrated painter as it charts his career alongside the visual culture of urban Amsterdam and the new Dutch Republic. 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Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollable and escapes the control of reason. A modest smile is permitted. But laughing loudly, grinning and grimacing: these are the playing field of the devil—just as pernicious as other uncontrollable urges, such as physical love or the addiction of the gambler. That is the domain of the peasant or fool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late Middle Ages, every right-thinking town-dweller knew the difference between the peasant and the fool. Peasants are innocently gullible, primitive, throwing themselves into feasting, gorging, drinking and sex. The peasant is the antithesis of the cultivated urbanite, who fastidiously controls his urges—and who therefore above all must not laugh too loudly. Only during Innocents Day parties or Shrove Tuesday celebrations is it permitted for urban partygoers to play the fool and to show their 'underbelly'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn contrast to the peasant, the fool escapes the existing order. He holds up a mirror to the self-declared wise citizens, because 'the fool reveals the truth through laughter', even though it may be hidden between piss and shit, sex and snot. It is for precisely this reason that Erasmus, in his \u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e, writes not as himself but through the persona of Folly, a broad back behind which the wise person can hide when he denounces social problems. Laughter thus alters the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this context, the fool and irony became important motifs in medieval art, especially in the Low Countries. This original art book is illustrated with dozens of top-quality works by Flemish masters from worldwide collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLarry Silver is professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the monograph \u003cem\u003eHieronymus Bosch\u003c\/em\u003e. He is renowned worldwide as one of the most important art historians of our age. 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