{"product_id":"frans-hals","title":"Frans Hals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals’s highly innovative approach to male portraiture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent seventeenth-century Dutch artists. Published to coincide with the Wallace Collection’s exhibition of the same name, \u003ci\u003eFrans \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHals: The Male Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e explores the artist’s highly innovative approach to male portraiture, from the beginning of his career in the 1610s until the end of his life in 1666.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough pose, expression and virtuosic painterly technique, Hals revolutionised the male portrait into something entirely new and fresh, capturing and revealing his sitters’ characters like no one else before him. This book includes the first in-depth study of Hals’s great masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Laughing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCavalier\u003c\/i\u003e, from 1624. The extravagantly dressed young man, confidently posed with his left arm akimbo in the extreme foreground of the picture and seemingly penetrating into the viewer’s space, has been charming audiences for over a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichly illustrated, \u003ci\u003eFrans Hals: The Male Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e situates \u003ci\u003eThe Laughing Cavalier\u003c\/i\u003e within the artist’s larger \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e and demonstrates how, at a relatively early point in his career, Hals was able to achieve this great masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314966995326,"sku":"NW9781781301104","price":23.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781781301104.jpg?v=1778699519","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/frans-hals","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}