Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. This handsome new publication examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of paper.

Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) was the most successful Dutch painter of his time, admired by the patricians of Amsterdam and the court of William iii of Orange. An eighteenth-century critic called him ‘undoubtedly the greatest genius there ever was in painting’.After a century of neglect his rehabilitation began in 1970 when the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum acquired a series of his monumental grisaille paintings. In an international exhibition (Cologne, Cassel, Dordrecht 2007) he was presented a...

Ten of de Jongh’s most influential articles on seventeenth-century Dutch painting are brought together in this volume: ‘Certain objects or motifs often serve a dual function. They operate as concrete, observable things while at the same time doing something totally different, namely expressing an idea, a moral, an intention, a joke or a situation.’

Het centrale schilderij in dit boek is een werk van Maerten De Vos, een van de belangrijkste kunstenaars uit het zestiende-eeuwse Antwerpen. Toch was het schilderij amper bekend en werd het nauwelijks onderzocht. Hildegard Van de Velde, conservator van het Snijders&Rockoxhuis, brengt daar met dit boek verandering in.

In de reeks ‘Phoebus Focus’ gaan experts en wetenschappers in op topstukken uit de rijke collectie van kunststichting The Phoebus Foundation.

Hildegard Van de Velde (°1960) ...

200 years have passed since the founding of the Leiden Print Room, incorporated today into Leiden University Libraries. In celebration of that long, rich history this wide-ranging new publication presents a complete and varied survey of the Leiden collections, starting with rare drawings from the early sixteenth century and ending with recent acquisitions from just this past decade. From Jan Gossart and Barend van Orley to Carel Visser and Emo Verkerk, this work encompasses the history of two...

Centraal in dit boek staat de artistieke pelgrimage van Nederlanders naar Parijs, die eind 19de eeuw op gang kwam en duurde tot en met de jaren '50. Honderden schilders, beeldhouwers en tekenaars uit Nederland - Vincent van Gogh, Kees van Dongen, John Rädecker, Piet Mondriaan, Charlotte van Pallandt, Karel Appel, Jan Cremer en vele anderen - verbleven in die periode voor korte of langere tijd in Parijs. Waar de een zich door de stad zelf liet inspireren, richtte de ander zich op de kunst van...

The impact of the Great War and its aftermath on Belgian artistic life.World War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, the horror at the battlefield and the experience of exile led to multiple narratives and artistic expressions by Belgian artists during and after the war. Belgian interbellum art is extremely vibrant and diverse. 14/18 - Rupture or Continuity takes a look at Belgian artistic life in the years around the First World War and how it was affected by this...