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Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts. The Imagery of Maerten de Vos (1532-1603).
The picture we are looking at in this edition in the Phoebus Focus series was painted by Maerten De Vos (1532-1603), one of sixteenth-century Antwerp?s leading artists. Yet up until now it has been relatively unknown and little studied. It has remained under the radar for so long because for generations it has been privately owned, with its most recent stop being in Turin, Italy.00Seven female figures in exquisite colours dominate this intriguing Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts, painted sometime around 1590. Though there is no communication between the seven ladies, they still share a strong sense of connectedness. None of them seem to be made of real flesh and blood. So who, or what, are they? Ladies of legend? Mythological maidens?
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Volume 54
Keyboard Instruments
"The organ was developed in Roman times, but its value was appreciated afresh during the Renaissance in the Low Countries. The virginal and harpsichord emerged more recently. The first references to Antwerp harpsichord makers date from the early sixteenth century, but between 1560 and 1660 Antwerp was known as the undisputed world capital of harpsichord making. When an organist pulls out all the stops, the sound can fill a cathedral just like an orchestra. Nevertheless, in the domestic setting of a salon, a virginal or harpsichord was able to enchant listeners in a different way, drawing them along with cadences of warm, mellifluous sound. Artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries tried to express this magic through their paintings"--
Rubens
The first study devoted to classical art’s vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life. Including 170 color illustrations, this volume addresses t...
Jan Brueghel
In 2019, we are looking back in Flanders and in Brussels at the crucial role that Pieter Bruegel the Elder played in the art-historical landscape of the sixteenth century. The 450th anniversary of his death is a good moment at which to rediscover the work of Jan Brueghel the Elder. The Snyders&Rockox House is therefore taking a closer look at the drawings of Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625), son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and brother of Pieter the Younger. Together with Peter Paul Rubens, Jan was one of the most successful Flemish artists of the first quarter of the seventeenth century. He was at home in every market - an inspired painter of landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, historical themes, ...
Die Tagebücher der Hildegard von Erffa, 1889–1900
Hildegard von Erffas Tagebuch ist eine faszinierende Quelle zum adligen Frauenleben im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert. In Hildegards Leben finden sich viele der Widersprüche der wilhelminischen adligen Gesellschaft: Kaisertreue und Familienstolz, Faszination der Moderne und Angst vor dem Umsturz, Idealisierung des ländlichen Lebens und Attraktion Berlins als Metropole sowie die Stellung adliger Frauen zwischen dem Privileg ihres Rangs und den Beschränkungen ihrer Genderrolle. Das Tagebuch zeigt zunächst die Entwicklung von Hildegards politischem Denken: Bedauert sie als junges Mädchen noch sehr den Rücktritt Bismarcks, wird sie im Lauf der Jahre zur immer begeisterten Unterstützerin des ...
Silent Messengers
This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted, or printed images. It describes the functions of these objects as ambiguous and polyvalent carriers of knowledge, and it analyzes the ways in which networks of scholars, craftsmen, mathematicians, anatomy professors, or merchants active in the Low Countries attributed new meanings to them. The book examines a period in which cities like Antwerp and Amsterdam were nodal points in the international exchange of goods, news, and skills. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 1)
Painting Flanders Abroad
Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid traces how Flemish immigrant painters and imported Flemish paintings fundamentally transformed the development of Spanish taste, collecting, and art production in the Spanish “Golden Age.”
Berlin Metropolis
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 vividly documents the diverse ways that Jewish artists, intellectuals, and cultural impresarios participated in this burst of creativity and promoted the emergence of modernism in Berlin and on the international scene."--BOOK JACKET.
