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Bruges and Europe
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Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation'
This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lo...
Eros Thanatos
Women presented in their overwhelming sensuality are omnipresent in the works of Greta Buysse. The artist uses scenery, light, accessories, sand, paint and ink to decorate her female model as an icon of gracefulness and elegance. Femininity is the basic material to be refined, textured and beautifully staged by the photographer. Greta Buysse appears as an honest artist, a creator of images in her own universe: she paints, sculptures, assembles and stages a self-made world, If this is all done, she tries to photograph that reality in a unique way. In the past quarter-century, Greta Buysse created an idiosyncratic and high-principled form of art photography. A surprising and seducing body of work which fascinates art-lovers. Above all, her outputs is unanimously praised and appreciated by leading international critics and collectors.
Hans Memling
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Cities of Commerce
Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy between 1250 and 1650, showing how dominant cities feared being displaced by challengers while lesser cities sought to keep up by cultivating policies favorable to trade. He argues that it was this competitive urban network that promoted open-access institutions in the Low Countries, and emphasizes the central role played by the urban power holders--the ...
Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.
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Georges Rodenbach
His pervasive interest in Bruges suffuses his work with the quiet, spiritual atmosphere of the "dead" city, a theme frequently evoked by writers of the fin de siecle.
Tropical Babylons
The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called "sugar revolution." The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world. Focusing on areas colonized by Spain and Portugal (before the emergence of the Caribbean sugar colonies of England, France, and Holland), these essays show that despite reliance on common knowledge and technology, there wer...
