![]() ![]() Franits, who provided a plethora of information in which to build my argument. I am indebted to the works of Kenneth Clark, Simon Schama, Eric Jan Sluijter and Wayne E. I rely on treatises from Cats, Van Beverwijck and de Lairesse to inform the moral climate of the seventeenth century, along with Seymour Slive’s account of Rembrandt’s reception. ![]() This thesis therefore discusses the way in which Rembrandt’s treatment of a nude female in history subjects could have impacted the seventeenth-century male viewer when considering the moralizing literature from the same period. Moralist writers such as Jacob Cats, Johan van Beverwijck and Gerard de Lairesse cautioned viewers during the seventeenth century of the immoral impact that could result from gazing at a painted female nude, especially one that is naturalistically rendered. ![]()
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