Jongh, Eddy de

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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).

Home Country:  Netherlands

Sources:  Burke, Peter. "Introduction: Carlo Ginzburg, Detective."  The Enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesca. London: Verso, 1985, p. 3.

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.