Full Name: Jongh, Eddy de
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Netherlands
Subject Area(s): iconography
Overview
One of the chief exponents of the iconographic interpretation of Dutch art emphasizing particularly that many seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings were intended to have symbolic or emblematic meaning (Simiolus, 1968).
Selected Bibliography
and Luijten, Ger. Mirror of Everyday Life: Genreprints in the Netherlands, 1550-1700. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1997; “Erotica in vogelperspectief.” Simiolus 3 (1968): 22-72.
Sources
Burke, Peter. “Introduction: Carlo Ginzburg, Detective.” The Enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesca. London: Verso, 1985, p. 3.