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Portrait of Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba : Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and the Series of Roman Emperors
, Phoebus Focus XXIV, 2021 Paperback, 80 pages, ENG, 210 x 145 mm, New, illustrated in colour / b/w. Phoebus Focus 24 ISBN 9789464366129.
Servius Sulpicius Galba was a Roman emperor who overthrew and succeeded Nero during the Year of the Four Emperors, 68-69 AD. In this ?Phoebus Focus? Nils B ttner places the extraordinary emperor portrait that Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) painted of him in its context. B ttner does not only whisks the reader off to first-century Rome, he also makes an analysis of Rubens? support medium and painting method, his fascination with Antiquity, his sources of inspiration and many inventions. In addition, B ttner elaborates on the long tradition of painting portraits of rulers and their integration in Baroque interiors.
Portret van keizer Servius Sulpicius Galba Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) en de Romeinse-keizerreeksen
, Phoebe Focus XXIV, 2023 Softcover, 80 pag. NL.,210 x 150 mm, Quadrichromie, Nieuw, illustr. in kleur / z/w. ISBN 9789464366112.
Servius Sulpicius Galba (kortweg Galba) is een Romeins senator en generaal die Nero in het Vierkeizerjaar, 68-69 n.Chr., ten val brengt en opvolgt. In deze editie van ?Phoebus Focus? plaatst Nils B ttner het bijzondere keizersportret dat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) van hem maakte in zijn context. B ttner neemt de lezer niet alleen mee naar het Rome van de eerste eeuw, maar analyseert ook de drager en de schilderwijze van Rubens, zijn fascinatie voor de oudheid, zijn inspiratiebronnen en zijn vele inventies. Daarnaast gaat hij dieper in op de lange beeldende traditie van heersersportretten en hun plaatsing in barokke interieurs. In de reeks Phoebus Focus gaan experts en wetenschappers in op topstukken uit de rijke collectie van kunststichting The Phoebus Foundation.
Katharina Van Cauteren, Nils B ttner, Matthias Ubl, Hildegard Van de Velde
Reference : 64771
Blind Date Portretten met Blikken en Blozen
, Hannibal Books, 2020 HARDCOVER 290 x 250 mm, 288 pages, NL edition met prachtige illustraties in kleur. ISBN 9789463887397.
Mannen in statig zwart, vrouwen met molensteenkragen, kinderen met gouden rammelaars, oude besjes en zelfgenoegzame kunstenaars? Ze zijn de hoofdrolspelers op zowat ieder portret dat ooit werd geschilderd in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Van de vijftiende tot de zeventiende eeuw is het kleine lapje grond dat vandaag ?Vlaanderen? heet het economische en culturele, intellectuele en financi le hart van Europa. En geld moet rollen: iedereen die het zich kan veroorloven, investeert in een portret. Vandaag hebben de gekoesterde statussymbolen van weleer hun oorspronkelijke betekenis grotendeels verloren. Van functioneel en emotioneel transformeerden de portretten tot toegangspoortjes tot het verleden. Aan de hand van topstukken uit de collectie van The Phoebus Foundation schetst dit boek de brede context waarin ze tot stand kwamen. Het pelt de betekenislagen van de voorstellingen, als waren het rokken van een ui. Want of het nu gaat om een indrukwekkende Rubens of Van Dyck, of om een intiem portret door een vergeten kunstenaar: ooit waren de mensen op deze schilderijen van vlees en bloed. Ze hadden eigenaardigheden en verborgen agenda?s, ambities en hogere doelen. Soms zijn die hoogstpersoonlijk en hyperindividueel. Soms ligt er een laagje stof op, en zijn de dames en heren kinderen van hun tijd. Meestal echter, zijn hun dromen en pretenties verrassend tijdloos en ontnuchterend herkenbaar. Blind Date is een afspraak met de geschiedenis: een ontmoeting met geportretteerde mannen en vrouwen uit vervlogen eeuwen. Maar voor wie bereid is om goed te kijken, blijkt de grens tussen heden en verleden flinterdun. HET VERHAAL VAN DE VLAAMSE PORTRETKUNST VERTELD AAN DE HAND VAN TOPSTUKKEN UIT DE COLLECTIE VAN THE PHOEBUS FOUNDATION De gelijknamige tentoonstelling Blind Date. Portretten met blikken en blozen loopt van 14 maart tot 31 december 2020 in het Snijders&Rockoxhuis Antwerpen, gecureerd door dr. Katharina Van Cauteren & Hildegard Van de Velde en in een scenografie van Walter Van Beirendonck.
Medici Series Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XIV.1 The Medici Series 14.1
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 Hardcover with dusjacket, 2 vols Pages: 802 pages, Size:180 x 265 mm Illustrations:158 b/w, 110 col., 1 tables b/w. Language(s):English. ISBN 9781915487278.
The decoration of the Luxembourg Palace galleries was the largest commission Rubens ever received. On Saturday 26 February 1622, the artist signed two contracts at the Louvre with the agreement ?to make and paint with his own hand each and every one of the figures? of the paintings which would decorate the two parallel galleries of the palace that the Queen Mother, Maria de? Medici (1573?1642), had begun to have built on the left bank of the Seine. According to the first contract, the western gallery was now ready and Rubens ?will be bound and obliged to design and to paint with his own hand twenty-four paintings depicting the history of the very illustrious life and heroic exploits? of the Queen Mother, conforming to an incomplete memoir, of which he had received a copy. Rubens arrived in Paris to put the final touches to the finished canvases celebrating the life of Maria de? Medici at the beginning of February 1625. But at this time the eastern gallery, planned to display the ?battles? and triumphs? of King Henri IV (1553?1610), Maria?s late husband, was still under construction. The Henri IV Gallery was to be an unfinished masterpiece: after a temporary suspension of the work in 1630, the project was definitively abandoned in 1631. Alexis Merle du Bourg?s in-depth study of the Henri IV Series was published as Part XIV.2 of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard in 2017. The present volume charts the earlier part of the Medici commission, which happily survives, splendidly completed. It presents Maria in her relationship with Henri, her public role after her husband?s death and, not least, her difficulties and then reconciliation with Louis XIII, her son. Here Rubens invoked the gods of ancient myth and a whole company of personified abstractions to help mask problematic episodes, dignify banal events and create a glorious commemoration of the life and aims of the Queen Mother.
Rubens a Genova
, Electa, 2022 Paperback, 416 pages, ITA., 280 x 240 x 35 mm, in good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9788892822795.
The volume is the catalogue of the homonymous exhibition held in Genova at Palazzo Ducale from 6 October 2022 to 22 January 2023, an extraordinary exhibition to tell the greatness of the most important Baroque painter ever: Peter Raul Rubens and his relationship with the city. The project was born on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the publishing in Antwerp of the Rubens? famous volume of Palazzi di Genova (1622). Rubens stayed on several occasions in Genova between 1600 and 1607 and thus had direct contacts relations ? in some cases very close ? with the city?s richest and most influential aristocrats. In exhibition and in the catalogue are presented more than 150 works, including more than twenty Rubens works, playing the role of protagonists, from European and Italian museums and collections (with some very significant ?re-entries?), which sum up to the ones present in the city, reaching a number such as there has not been since the end of the 18th century in Genova; since, that is, the crisis of the aristocracy with the repercussions of the French Revolution triggered an inexorable diaspora of masterpieces towards the collections of the world. From the Rubensian nucleus, the story of the cultural and artistic context of the city in the period of its utmost splendour is completed by paintings by artists whom Rubens certainly saw and studied (Tintoretto and Luca Cambiaso); whom he met in Italy and in particular in Genoa during his stay (Frans Pourbus the Younger, Sofonisba Anguissola and Bernardo Castello) or with whom he collaborated (Jan Wildens and Frans Snyders). Drawings, engravings, tapestries, furnishings, antique volumes, even clothes, feminine accessories and jewels allow to celebrate the grandeur of an artistic capital visited by one of the major artists of all times and confirm that appellation of Superb, given to Genoa. The catalogue is richly illustrated and gives account of the long path of studies and scientific insights by the curators and the thematic essays see contributions from a consistent number of international scholars. The exhibition guide and the guide to the Rubens? Genoa, a fascinating urban itinerary on the trail of Rubens? masterpieces, complete the proposal for the visitors and enthusiasts.
Katharina Van Cauteren, Nils B ttner, Matthias Ubl, Hildegard Van de Velde. Scenography by Walter Van Beirendonck
Reference : 53784
BLIND DATE, The Bold and The Beautiful in Flemish Portraits
, Hannibal / Kannibaal , 2020 Hardcover, 290 x 250 mm, 288 pages, English edition. ISBN 9789463887403.
Portraits from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, what should we do with those long forgotten people from centuries ago? They stare at us, sometimes with a little monk, or ignore us completely. Without saying a word. Yet they have so much to tell us. About their fascinating lives, who they were or hoped to be. This book wants to offer the reader an appointment with history, or rather, a blind date with portrayed men and women from days gone by. Blind Date shows an exceptional sample of portraiture from the past. The Phoebus Foundation possesses a wealth of such portraits, so many and diverse that they could compile an exhibition and a book that illuminate the genre of portrait painting in all its facets, from selfie to group portrait.
Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, Nils B ttner, Gerlinde Gruber, Fiona Healy, Eveliina Juntunen, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood
Reference : 60700
Hercules to Olympus Part XI, 2: Mythological Subjects Hercules to Olympus / 2 volumes.
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2023 hardcover with dusjacket, 2 vols, 946 pages.Size:175 x 260 mm Illustrations:450 b/w. Language(s):English. ISBN 9781912554867.
One remarkable feature of European culture as it developed in the Renaissance was the accommodation it made with ancient paganism. The classical gods and their legends were allegorised, transformed into symbolic figures or emblematic scenes that might accord with Christian morality. At the same time a secular space was created in art for the depiction of the most popular myths, above all the love stories recounted by the ancient poets. These stories were not only attractive in themselves; they offered the opportunity to depict nude figures in narrative action, which the example of antiquity held forth as the highest goal for painting. Rubens was one of the greatest creators of classical allegory; he was also a supreme interpreter of the classical stories. No painter was so at home in the literature of the Greeks and Romans. When he painted for pleasure, which, increasingly in the course of his life, he felt able to do, he used pagan myth to express and celebrate themes of love, beauty and the creative forces of nature, often in wonderfully idiosyncratic ways. At the same time, as a Christian committed to the ideals of the Catholic Reformation, Rubens respected the restrictions generally placed on the depiction of pagan tales. Most of his mythological paintings were made for private settings, for display within houses (including his own) or in the galleries of princes, noblemen and prelates. It is happy accident of history that these splendid paintings are now widely visible in the great museums of the world.
Sailor and a Woman Embracing Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) and modern painting
Antwerp, Phoebus Focus XV, 2020 Paperback, 79 pages, 21,1 x 14,1 x 1,1 cm. Illustrated. Text in English ISBN 9789463883382.
Phoebus Focus 15 - A Sailor and a Woman Embracing Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and modern painting
zeeman en een vrouw in omhelzing Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) en de moderne schilderkunst
Antwerp, Phoebus Focus XV, 2020 Paperback, 79 pages, 21,1 x 14,1 x 1,1 cm. Illustrated. Text in NL. ISBN 9789463883375.
Phoebus Focus 15 - Een zeeman en een vrouw in omhelzing Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) en de moderne schilderkunst
