Public faces and private identities in seventeenth-century Holland: portraiture and the production of community

Abstract

1. The cultural power of portraits: the market, interpersonal experience, and subjectivity 2. Portraits of individuals: physiognomy, demeanor, and the representation of character 3. Family portraits: the private arena and the social order 4. The history portrait: comprehending self through historical narrative 5. Civic guard portraits: personal friendships and the public sphere 6. Portraits and the production of identity: transitional objects and potential spaces.