{"title":"Birds of a Feather: Deciphering the Didactic Iconography and Humour of Adriaen van de Venne’s Hoe dienen wij bij een!","authors":"Sarah Dyer Magleby","doi":"10.1080/03096564.2019.1656851","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Delft-born Adriaen van de Venne (1580–1662) is an artist well-known for his genre scenes, portraits, and book illustrations. He also created images with great moralistic and comic value, such as his painting Hoe dienen wij bij een!, made between c. 1614 and 1662. This painting portrays two brown and black-spotted owls in the guise of humans skating on a frozen lake. As other more conventional birds soar above the distant skeletal trees, these feathered creatures both wear contemporary clothing. The male owl also clenches a rope in his beak with a pair of glasses knotted at the end. This same rope attaches behind him to the female owl’s chest, but instead of spectacles, her end holds several dead mice. Above the two anthropomorphic animals floats a banderole, which translates to ‘How well we go together!’ Although scholars believe van de Venne intended this work as lighthearted with only a vague message of foolishness, I contend that through the artist’s use of iconographic imagery and well-known proverbs and themes, van de Venne produced a humorous painting with a moralizing and didactic message which condemned the vice of adultery and warned the male audience about the dangers of a cunning woman.","PeriodicalId":41997,"journal":{"name":"Dutch Crossing-Journal of Low Countries Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dutch Crossing-Journal of Low Countries Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2019.1656851","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Delft-born Adriaen van de Venne (1580–1662) is an artist well-known for his genre scenes, portraits, and book illustrations. He also created images with great moralistic and comic value, such as his painting Hoe dienen wij bij een!, made between c. 1614 and 1662. This painting portrays two brown and black-spotted owls in the guise of humans skating on a frozen lake. As other more conventional birds soar above the distant skeletal trees, these feathered creatures both wear contemporary clothing. The male owl also clenches a rope in his beak with a pair of glasses knotted at the end. This same rope attaches behind him to the female owl’s chest, but instead of spectacles, her end holds several dead mice. Above the two anthropomorphic animals floats a banderole, which translates to ‘How well we go together!’ Although scholars believe van de Venne intended this work as lighthearted with only a vague message of foolishness, I contend that through the artist’s use of iconographic imagery and well-known proverbs and themes, van de Venne produced a humorous painting with a moralizing and didactic message which condemned the vice of adultery and warned the male audience about the dangers of a cunning woman.
出生于代尔夫特的Adriaen van de Venne(1580-1662)是一位以其类型场景,肖像和书籍插图而闻名的艺术家。他还创作了具有重大道德和喜剧价值的图像,如他的画作《我们在一起!》,约1614年至1662年制作。这幅画描绘了两只棕色和黑色斑点的猫头鹰伪装成人类在冰冻的湖面上滑冰。当其他更传统的鸟类在远处的骨骼树上翱翔时,这些有羽毛的生物都穿着现代的衣服。雄猫头鹰还用嘴叼着一根绳子,绳子的末端结着一副眼镜。在他身后,同样的绳子绑在雌猫头鹰的胸前,但不是眼镜,而是她的一端挂着几只死老鼠。在这两只拟人化的动物上方,漂浮着一个小标语,意思是“我们在一起多好啊!”“虽然学者们认为,范·德·维纳的意图是让这幅作品轻松愉快,只是模糊地传达了愚蠢的信息,但我认为,通过艺术家对肖像意象和众所周知的谚语和主题的使用,范·德·维纳创作了一幅幽默的画作,其中带有道德和说教的信息,谴责通奸的恶习,并警告男性观众警惕狡猾的女人的危险。”