Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck and Their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen - Hardcover

Baetens, Roger; De Haan, Maartje; Depauw, Carl; Luijten, Ger; Meij, Bram; Meijer, Bert; Vlieghe, Hans; Jordaens, Jacob; Van Dyck, Anthonie; Rubens, Peter Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9056622129 ISBN 13: 9789056622121

Publisher: nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2001

Synopsis

Among the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum's extensive holdings of Old Master drawings, the collection of drawings by the Antwerp masters Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck stand out as absolute highlights. This generously illustrated publication examines 70 of their best drawings, discussing not only the significance of these works, but also their provenance, attribution and dating. It also sets the work in context, by considering the work of a variety of contemporaries on the seventeenth-century Flemish scene (many of whom were influenced directly by the work of these masters), and by including essays on a variety of topics of art and culture in Antwerp. This book will be a major contribution to the study of seventeenth-century Northern European art.

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From Library Journal:

Among the superb holdings of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is an impressive array of 17th-century Flemish drawings. This volume serves not only to provide visual and scholarly documentation for the total collection but also as a handsome exhibition catalog for the most significant of these works. The major sections of the catalog are given over to the drawings of Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and some of the more notable artists of the school. The entries go beyond most books of this sort in the lavish and welcome addition of excellent collateral visual documentation. The effect of this is to enable the user to grasp instantly the connection of the drawing to finished works or inspiring sources. Adequate articulations of formal values and stylistic concerns are overwhelmed, at times, by the preoccupation with visual connections. A mixed bag of six brief, scholarly essays attempts to contextualize the drawings; another section more modestly illustrates and documents the collection's less significant graphic material. A necessary acquisition only for libraries seriously concerned with old master drawings. Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York

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About this edition

• Publisher: nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9056622129
• ISBN 13: 9789056622121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384