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Aan de hand van ruim negentig topstukken van Vlaamse en Hollandse meesters laat dit boek zien dat de bloei van de zeventiende-eeuwse Hollandse schilderkunst er niet was geweest zonder het zestiende-eeuwse Antwerpen. Door diepgaand onderzoek wordt kennisgemaakt met het verhaal van talentvolle en goed opgeleide kunstenaars en kooplieden die in het noorden godsdienstvrijheid en nieuwe handelsmogelijkheden zochten na de Val van Antwerpen in 1585.

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Reference work by Koenraad Jonckheere offers a new vision on the history of art

“There are many stories of western art that have been written, almost all of them focused on artists, nations, and traditions. But Jonckheere's daring book is a learned and eminently readable story of the art itself, about the questions that works of art try and often fail to answer, and about what they do to us in the process. It's a catalyst for teaching and thinking anew.”

– Marisa Anne Bass, Yale University

“No other history of art comes close to Jonckheere’s. It’s as engagingly written as Gombrich’s classic The Story of Art. It’s neither pedestrian nor a survey of an out-of-date canon. It’s the most ambitious and original general history of art we have ever had. Vigorous, up-to-date, unprejudiced and lively, it’s a history of art of our time and for our time....