BOEKFICHE The Bold and the Beautiful - In Flemish Portraits

Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self-satisfied artists… These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And money flows – with everyone who ...

Zot van Dimpna

Acht panelen vol passie, lef en rebellie

Sven Van Dorst, Stephan Kemperdick, Till-Holger Borchert e.a.

Omstreeks 1505 schilderde Goossen Van der Weyden, de kleinzoon van Rogier, een momumentaal altaarstuk dat de verschillende fasen uit het waanzinnige leven van de heilige Dimpna verbeeldt.

Deze Ierse prinses, die in de zesde eeuw op de vlucht sloeg voor haar incestueuze vader, werd in het Kempische Geel het hoofd afgehakt. Door haar tragische einde en onverzettelijke kuisheid ...

From Memling to Rubens

The Golden Age of Flanders

Why did Hans Memling paint everything in such minute detail? How did Rubens, in just a few brushstrokes, create special effects that Steven Spielberg would envy? And why was the Southern Netherlands the artistic centre of the world for three centuries?

From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders tells the story of Flemish art from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as you’ve never read it before. It’s a rollercoaste...

The Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp is

a house full of art. Intriguing art that inspires

wonder and emotion. Today, the museum is internationally

renowned as the home of Pieter Bruegel

the Elder’s famous painting Mad Meg. To loyal fans,

it is a cherished, well-kept secret. Visitors always

marvel at how so much beauty was gathered in one

place. Who amassed this unique collection? And

how and why was this museum established?

The museum is a monument to two people:

Henriëtte Mayer van d...

The Measurement of Presence

Iris Kensmil and Remy Jungerman

176 PAGES - 30 X 21.8 CM - SOFTCOVER - ENGLISH EDITION - ISBN: 978 94 9267 780 8 - € 30

For the Venice Biennale 2019, Benno Tempel,

director of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

curated the exhibition The Measurement of

Presence, in which he combines installations

by Remy Jungerman with wall paintings and

paintings by Iris Kensmil.

The Measurement of Presence is a

transnational presentation that explores

traditions and the past, bringing...

The Spanish Bernini

Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628–1688) is

nowadays the most highly regarded master

of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with

his contemporaries, the great seventeenthcentury

painters Velázquez, Zurbarán and

Murillo.

Mena’s contributions to Spanish Baroque

sculpture are unsurpassed in both technical

skill and expressiveness of his religious

subjects. His ability to sculpt the human body

was remarkable, and he excelled in creating

figures and scenes for contemplation.

T...

Another History of Art – 2.500 jaar Europese kunstgeschiedenis

Koenraad Jonckheere

Kunst is zoveel meer dan een esthetische ervaring of een intrigerend concept. Het is ook een instrument van politiek en religie, een katalysator van revoluties, een trigger van extreme reacties, een laboratorium voor nieuwe technologieën. Kunst is de blauwdruk van een tijdperk, de drager van ongrijpbare betekenis. Kunst vertegenwoordigt fabelachtige bedragen maar ook een zee van ontroering.

Hoe is kunst in ...