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Divine Seduction
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Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age
The collection of Dutch old master paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ranks among the most important in the world: its five hundred works by seventeenth-century artists is the world’s fourth largest array outside Holland. 'Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age' seeks to throw light on this substantial collection from the Old Masters’ Gallery. Centred around the highlights of the Museum’s own collection, this exhibition will provide an introduction to the strikingly rich and versatile artistic culture of the “Dutch Golden Age”. It will unfold the richness of genres and versatility of styles in seventeenth-century Dutch painting in a way that is interesting, comprehensible, ...
The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception
Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of ‘visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.’
Dutch Old Masters from Budapest
From 12 November, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem presents 80 works by Dutch masters from one of the finest collections in the world, that of the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest. Works by artists from Haarlem including Willem Buytewech, Willem Claesz Heda, Pieter Saenredam and Jacob van Ruisdael are shown alongside works by famous Dutch and Flemish painters such as Hendrick Avercamp, Jan Lievens and Anthonie van Dyck. Moreover, on the occasion of the 350th year of Frans Hals's death in 2016, two of his beautiful portraits that are now in Budapest are reunited with his paintings at the Frans Hals Museum. The publication presents these gems from the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum through large colour images and informative texts about genres, techniques and the collection as a whole, thus throwing new light on the Haarlem pieces and at the same time painting a kaleidoscopic picture of the art of this period. Exhibition: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands (11.11.2016-12.02.2017).
A Summary Catalogue of Italian Paintings 1250-1800
More than thirty years have passed since the summary catalogue of the Italian Old Master paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest was published in 1991. The volume also comprised the collection's French and Spanish holdings, as well as the few Greek Orthodox icons held in the museum at the time. The editorial principle was to give as complete and as concise a presentation as possible of these sections of the collection. That volume, as a kind of supplement to Andor Pigler's still irreplaceable catalogue from 1967, provided an essential database of our paintings. Soon after the volume was published, it became increasingly timely to compile an updated summary catalogue, dealing exclusivel...
Geest en Gratie
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Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp
This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It is structured around three works of art, made or procured by Peter Paul Rubens: the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary cycle (in situ), Caravaggio’s Rosary Madonna (Vienna) and the Wrath of Christ high altarpiece (Lyon). Within the artist’s lifetime, the church and monastery were completely rebuilt, creating one of the most spectacular sacred spaces in Northern Europe. In this richly illustrated book, Adam Sammut reconceptualises early modern churches as theatres of political economy, advancing an original approach to cultural production in a time of war. Using methodologies at the cutting edge of the humanities, the place of St Paul’s is restored to the crux of Antwerp’s commercial, civic and religious life.
Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)
In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515–Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II — are examined in detail, and studied within the context of the cosmopolitan learned and courtly environments in which he moved. These volumes offer a substantial reassessment of Strada’s importance as an agent of change, transmitting the ideas and artistic language of the Italian Renaissance to the North.
Asia in Amsterdam
Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age
