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 ...

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...

Portretten met blikken en blozen

Katharina Van Cauteren, Nils Büttner, Matthias Ubl en Hildegard Van de Velde

Portretten uit de late middeleeuwen

en de vroegmoderne tijd, wat moeten we met die lang vergeten mensen van eeuwen geleden? Ze staren ons aan, soms met een monkellachje, of negeren ons compleet. Zonder een woord te zeggen. Toch hebben ze ons zo veel te vertellen. Over hun boeiende levens, wie ze waren, of hoopten te zijn.

Dit boek wil de lezer een afspraak met de geschiedenis bieden,...