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Miotły i zamtuzy. Jeszcze raz o „znaczeniach ukrytych” w sztuce holenderskiej XVII w. (malarstwo rodzajowe i kasety perspektywiczne)

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Oczko P.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

2013

vol. 75

issue 1

5-35

In this paper the author pays special attention to brooms, which constantly re-appear in Dutch art of the seventeenth century, and their various meanings (signs of womanhood; paragons of virtue; women’s weapons; moral and, above all, sexual symbols). The author carefully describes problems connected with interpretations of Dutch genre painting and the issue of so-called hidden meanings/ disguised symbolism. The author proposes several new interpretations of paintings (for example the new interpretation of a peepshow by Samuel van Hoogstraten as representing the interior of a brothel) and suggests that the broom can also be understood as the symbol of debauchery (based on Dutch phraseologisms such as de bezem uitsteken and over de bezem getrouwd zijn), hence, not only a symbol concerning moral order, as it had been. The author also discusses two Dutch peepshows from the second half of the seventeenth century as the possible representations of the brothels and shows wide contexts from Dutch genre painting which enable such an interpretation.

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Miotły i zamtuzy. Jeszcze raz o „znaczeniach ukrytych” w sztuce holenderskiej XVII w. (malarstwo rodzajowe i kasety perspektywiczne)