‎Claire Billen, Jean-Marie Duvosquel.‎
‎Brussels.‎

‎A.2R.C Architects: The Master Architect Series Bruxelles -Brussel -Brussels‎

‎, , 2016 Hardcover with dusjacket, 432 pages 252mm x 234mm. ill. delivery after 28/10/2016 ISBN 9781876901579.‎

‎The work of internationally renowned, Brussels-based architectural and design firm A2RC ARCHITECTS forms a close link between art, architecture and the urban environment. Critical of attempts over the last few decades to ?modernise? Brussels, the firm is steadfast in its dedication to the continuing urbanisation of the city by implementing new ways of urban living. A2RC ARCHITECTS has pursued the rehabilitation of Brussels by offering full architectural services for the construction of new buildings and urban communities, particularly large-scale, mixed-use urban ensembles. It also has a strong reputation for the successful transformation, restoration, and re-adaptation of noteworthy buildings across a wide range of projects, including theatres, opera houses, museums, public parks, parliaments and congress centres. This book documents and explores the work of a firm dedicated to the future of one of Europe?s most historic and beautiful cities, but it also shows the architecture and design communities how the firm is these days working towards using its knowledge in other cities beset by similar urbanisation issues. The office of the internationally renowned architectural and design firm A2RC ARCHITECTS was established in Brussels (Belgium) in 1983 by architects Brigitte D?Helft and Michel Verliefden. A savoir-faire coupled with a profound knowledge of the procedures, institutions, and particularly the decision-makers in the complicated maze of the ?Capital of Europe? has resulted in many successfully completed projects, several being recognised on both the Belgian and the international scene by the jury of organisations such as the Regles d?Or de l?Urbanisme in Brussels, the MIPIM in Cannes (France), Europa Nostra in The Hague (The Netherlands) or the RICS in London (United Kingdom), to name a few. ‎

‎Spectacle for a Spanish Princess. The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 440 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:240 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503594439.‎

‎Summary On the evening of 9 December 1496, Princess Joanna, Infanta of Castile, reaches the outskirts of Brussels where a procession of secular and ecclesiastical dignitaries welcomes her. After having been married to Philip the Fair in Lier, Joanna travelled to Brussels by herself. Equipped with torches and processional crosses, the citizens accompany her all the way to the heart of the city, the large market square with its magnificent town hall. The Berlin manuscript 78 D5 is the first illustrated report of an entry concentrating on one single lady. The manuscript is a treasure to all those interested in urban culture of the Early Modern period. The author of the festival booklet compares the well-lit city with the splendours of Troy and Carthage. Twenty-eight stage sets, or Tableaux Vivants, and an elaborate procession mirror the costly intellectual program presented to the sixteen-year-old princess. The carefully planned theatrical productions underscore themes of marriage, female virtues and the politics of war and peace. The program includes entertainments, soundscapes, and pyrotechnic amusements. The Latin texts are made available in English translation. The entire manuscript, with its sixty-three folios, is reproduced in colour. Eleven leading scholars present their new findings on this spectacular entry from an interdisciplinary approach. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction. A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess (Dagmar Eichberger) 2. Joanna of Castile's first Residence in the Low Countries (1496-1501): the Transformation of a Trast mara Princess (Raymond Fagel) 3. Joanna, Infanta of Castile and Habsburg Archduchess. Recreating a Lost Wardrobe and Trousseau in 1496 (Annemarie Jordan Gschwend) 4. The Self-representation of Brussels in Times of Uncertainty (Claire Billen & Chlo Deligne) 5. 'In unam pacis accordantiam'. The Role of City Poet Jan Smeken and other Rhetoricians in Organizing the Brussels Entry (Remco Sleiderink and Amber Souleymane) 6. Role Models for a Queen?s Daughter (Wim Blockmans) 7. Arguing with the Old Testament. Moral and Political Lessons for Princess Joanna of Castile (Dagmar Eichberger) 8. 'Pour esmouvoir les cuers et coraiges des hommes a Joye et Recreation:' the Entry of Joanna of Castile as Entertainment (Laura Weigert) 9. The Brussels Town Hall. A Worthy Emblem for a Capital City (Sascha K hl) 10. Illustrating Contemporary Events in Watercolour on Paper. The Entry of Joanna of Castile as an Example for a new Genre of Memorial Books (Anne-Marie Legar ) 11. Ms 78 D5. A Codicological Description (Dagmar Eichberger) 12. Ms 78 D5. Short Descriptions of the Miniatures (Helga Kaiser-Minn) 13. Ms 78 D5. The Latin Text: Transcription and Translation (Verena Demoed) 14. Ms 78 D5 (fols 1r - 63v). Reproduction of Text and Images 15. Bibliography 16. Keywords‎

‎Embracing Brussels, Art and Culture in the Court City, 1600-1800. Brussel. ‎

‎, Brepols Publishers, 2013 Paperback, 280 pages., 120 b/w ill., CD, 210 x 297 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503542287.‎

‎It would appear that Flemish Baroque has come to be regarded as synonymous with Antwerp Baroque. The aim of this publication on art and art production in Brussels in the period 1600?1800 is to reconsider the art-historical position of Brussels as a major hub of activity and place of residence for courtiers and artists alike. Attention will focus on matters as diverse as literature, music, housing, and the guild system, besides which aspects of the art trade, style differentiation and case studies relating to individual artists will be discussed. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Habsburg Court was viewed as the supreme creative centre, where systems of symbols were forged and propagated that were designed to display both the artist?s craftsmanship and the ruler?s piety. I. The Context of The City, Veerle De Laet, At home in seventeenth-century Brussels. Patterns of art and luxury consumption, Harald Deceulaer, Fashion, innovation and regional distribution. The clothing trades in Brussels, sixteenth?eighteenth centuries, Karel Porteman, A few literary-historical vedute of seventeenth-century Brussels, Maartje De Wilde, De lokroep van de nachtegaal: wereldlijke liedboeken uit het zeventiende-eeuwse Brussel. II. Art Production ‎

‎Shaping the Future. City Projects N.V. Vastgoed Ontwikkeling Brussels. ( Trade catalogue Real Estate Projects ) .‎

‎2. Brussels, City Projects N.V., Louizalaan 149 b14. ( Snippe Projecten B.V. - Amsterdam, Prins Hendriklaan 45 ) , s.d. ( ca. 2010 ), format oblong, in-4°, 24 x 30 cm, (24 ) nn pp , coloured ills. Publisher's cased binding. Trade catalogue of a real estate developper with projects in Brussels : Kasteelhof in Buggenhout. Victor Jacobs street in Brussels . Reylhof in Ghent . Etterbeek - de Gerlache . Woluwe Saint Pierre - la Faisanderie. The Hooikaai - Brussels city centre..‎

‎Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels ‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2015 Hardcover with dusjacket, 340 p., 58 b/w ill. + 42 colour ill., 216 x 280 mm, 2015 Languages: English. FINE CONDITION . ISBN 9782503555300.‎

‎This book examines the career of the Brussels artist Michael Sweerts through an examination of the artistic, intellectual and cultural contexts that shaped his work and academy in the Netherlands and Italy in the seventeenth century. The Flemish artist Michael Sweerts has long been considered one of the most fascinating and enigmatic painters of the seventeenth century. His peripatetic career, which stretched from his native Brussels to Rome, and later Amsterdam and the Far East, included work for the papal family and the foundation of a drawing academy in the Southern Netherlands. Despite this rich and varied career, Sweerts has yet to be fully examined within the artistic, intellectual and cultural contexts of Brussels and Rome in the seventeenth century. This book aims to retrace the artistic traditions that shaped Sweerts? development and evolution as a painter, etcher and teacher, firmly situating him at the crossroads of artistic exchange between the Netherlands and Italy. The author demonstrates how Sweerts responded to contemporary notions of artistic practice and pedagogy in his work, and how he played a critical role in the formation of a Netherlandish academic tradition. Approaching Sweerts from these new perspectives, this book examines the classicizing and artistic contexts of Brussels as a center of tapestry production, and reconstructs Sweerts? familial and social networks in the Netherlands and Rome. The artist emerges as a sophisticated figure amongst his contemporaries, including the French painter Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665), his patron, Camillo Pamphilj (1622-1666), nephew of Pope Innocent X, and the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy (1597-1643). Alongside a consideration of his sensitive scenes of peasants and artists in Rome?s urban landscape and strikingly life-like portraits and head studies, Sweerts? remarkable depictions of artists learning and practicing their profession are contextualized within the evolving conceptions of the academy in the early modern period. The author provides the first inclusive investigation of the artistic and socioeconomic frameworks that surrounded Sweerts? establishment of a drawing academy for artists and tapestry designers in Brussels in the 1650s. She brings to light the academy?s significance as a site of artistic learning and innovation, and the importance of working directly from life, while ultimately redefining Sweerts? place in the history of Flemish art. ‎