, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2018 hardcover, IV+292 pages., 16 b/w ill. + 116 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English. FINE . ISBN 9781909400825.
This fascinating collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Netherlandish art and luxury goods shaped and transformed the artistic landscape of Renaissance Spain This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Netherlandish art and luxury goods permeated the artistic landscape of Renaissance Spain. Covering a wide range of approaches and perspectives, the book includes studies on carved altarpieces, stone sculpture, painting, tapestry, architectural design, prints and mathematical instruments. Through the lens of artists, patrons, collectors, merchants and other intermediaries, special attention is paid to local cultures of collecting and display. Together, the essays provide a fascinating and multifaceted view of the reciprocal relationships between the Low Countries and Spain from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. Daan van Heesch is a PhD Fellow in Art History at the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and affiliated with Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven). His PhD research focuses on the transnational reception of Hieronymus Bosch in the early modern period. Robrecht Janssen works at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels. He is also a PhD candidate at KU Leuven with a project on the writings on art of the Bruges poet and painter Dominicus Lampsonius (1532-1599). Jan Van der Stock is a full professor at KU Leuven with research interests in the history of the printed image in the Low Countries and the socio-economic aspects of art history. He is the director of Illuminare ? Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven). Table of Contents Introduction ? Daan van Heesch, Robrecht Janssen and Jan Van der Stock ?Le chanoine rouge?: Tribute to an Inspired and Inspiring Master ? Paul Vandenbroeck ?As yche othere brothere?: The Human Factor within the Hispano-Flemish World ? Raymond Fagel Made in Iberia: A New Look at the Retable of Contador Salda a in Santa Clara de Tordesillas ? Nicola Jennings Flemish Carved Altarpieces in Spain: Reflections on their Patronage and the Relationship between Flemish and Spanish Artistic Traditions ? Jes s Mu iz Petralanda, Maite Barrio Olano and Ion Berasain Salvarredi Jean Mone, Barcelona, and the Origins of the ?Netherlandish? Antique Manner ? Ethan Matt Kavaler Flemish, Spanish, or Somewhere in Between? On a Netherlandish Anonymous Draughtsman of the 1530s and his Inventions ? Krista De Jonge Trading with the Enemy: The Spanish Market for Antwerp Prints and Paintings during the Revolt ? Stephanie Porras The Plantin Book Trade and the Supply of Art Objects to the Spanish Elite ? Dirk Imhof The Duke of Alba?s Tapestry Acquisitions in the Low Countries (c. 1555?73) ? Iain Buchanan Historical Substance and Acquired Meaning of Rogier van der Weyden?s Deposition of Christ at the Court of Philip II ? Antonia Putzger Flemish Mathematical Instruments as Luxury Goods of Knowledge and their Migration to San Lorenzo de El Escorial ? Koenraad Van Cleempoel The Guevaras as Collectors of Netherlandish Art at the Spanish Court ? Elena V zquez Due as Gender, Representation and Power: Female Patronage of Netherlandish Art in Renaissance Spain ? Noelia Garc a P rez The Dukes of Medina Sidonia and Netherlandish Art: On the Artistic Patronage of a Sixteenth-Century Iberian Court ? Eduardo Lamas-Delgado Tan universal aplauso: Communal Praise in Seventeenth-Century Madrid ? Abigail D. Newman