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Angela Burdett-Coutts Collection of Greek Manuscripts
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 472 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:80 b/w, 102 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593760.
Summary Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), descendant of a wealthy and well-known family of bankers, inherited quite young, through a series of unpredictable circumstances, the enormous fortune of Thomas Coutts, her maternal grand-father. She spent most of her long life in London, where she occupied a prominent position in society, becoming well-known not only for her splendid life-style and her important literary and political acquaintances, as, for instance, Charles Dickens and Admiral Nelson, but also for her active role as a philanthropist. This book explores a little-known side of her life; although she did not know Greek, she became the owner of ca. 100 Greek manuscripts, mostly theological, datable between the tenth and the sixteenth century, a part of which she donated to Highgate School. The manuscripts, with all the Baroness's possessions, were dispersed at auction in 1921 and in 1987 and are now mainly divided between American and European University Libraries. This book has identified for the first time the Baroness's Greek manuscripts, located and described them in detail, with special attention to their script style and their origin, adding to their description one or two plates of each codex. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: History of the collection Chapter 1: Angela Burdett-Coutts' life. The formation of her collection of Greek manuscripts Chapter 2: The sale of Angela Burdett-Coutts collection of Greek manuscripts Chapter 3: Angela Burdett-Coutts Greek manuscripts Chapter 4: Provenance of the Burdett-Coutts manuscripts Chapter 5: List and description of Burdett-Coutts manuscripts from Epirote monasteries or churches Chapter 6: Burdett-Coutts manuscripts from the Meteora. Their present location in various libraries Chapter 7: Two Burdett-Coutts manuscripts with plaques from the Russian monastery of Solovki applied to the bindings Chapter 8: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Library, SCRC, Mich. Ms. 15 (B.-C. III. 5), a manuscript belonging to the Ferrar Group ('Family 13') Chapter 9: Burdett-Coutts manuscripts with a decoration Chapter 10: Burdett-Coutts manuscripts with a remarkable decoration Part II: Description of the Burdett-Coutts manuscripts Description of the Burdett-Coutts manuscripts in Ann Arbor Description of the Burdett-Coutts manuscripts in Athens Description of the Burdett-Coutts manuscripts in various libraries The lost manuscripts Appendix Index of Manuscripts and Illustrations Index of Names
Anna Dlaba?ov , Renaud Adam, Joran Proot, Marieke Van Delft, Ludo Vandamme
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Incunabula in the low countries: materiality, presentation and transmission
Antwerpen , Vereniging Van Antwerpse Bibliofielen, 2025 Zachte kaft, 116 pagina's, 16 x 24 cm, English/Nederlandstalige tekst. *New . ISBN 9789080885592.
In 2023 was het 550 jaar geleden dat vrijwel tegelijk in Utrecht en Aalst voor het eerst een boek werd gedrukt in de Nederlanden. In 2023 is ook het project IMPRESSVM. De wieg van de Vlaamse boekdrukkunst afgerond.Dat project inventariseert alle in Vlaanderen gedrukte incunabelen in Vlaams bezit op basis van een gestandaardiseerd model en maakt dit raadpleegbaar via de STCV. De verjaardag en de afronding van het project vormden de aanleiding voor een themanummer van De Gulden Passer over incunabelen onder de titel Incunabula in the Low Countries : Materiality, Presentation and Transmission, waarin zowel onderzoek naar de inhoud, de vorm als naar het materi le aspect van de incunabelen wordt gepresenteerd
From Gypsy to Bohemian: A Study of the Musical Rhapsody
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, xxii + 247 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, 13 musical examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503594873.
Summary This volume examines the concept of rhapsody through a broad lens. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning(s) of the term itself, it then traces the history and reception of the genre and its significance in European culture. It argues for a close relationship between the idea of rhapsody and the concept of Gypsiness by demonstrating that 'rhapsody' and 'Gypsiness' can be seen as manifestations of the same types of influence and preferences for certain aesthetic categories. The book pays special attention to the seminal role of Franz Liszt in its discussion of the instrumental rhapsody. Ultimately, it reveals the consequences of historiographical representations of the rhapsody (e.g. the ossification of the image of the European Gypsy musician as a bard/rhapsode, the fossilization of presumptions concerning the nature of so-called 'Gypsies') as well as unexpected similarities and differences between the rhapsody and the ballad as romantic genres with national implications. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Prolegomenon Chapter One Gypsy Musicians as Rhapsodes of the Nineteenth Century Chapter Two Gypsy Improvisation and the Idea of Rhapsody Chapter Three The Gypsy Character of Musical Rhapsody Chapter Fourth Gypsy, Hungarian, Romanian ? The National Element in Rhapsodies Chapter Five Between Rhapsody and Ballad Postscript: Continuations and Reactivations Bibliography Index of Names
Ives Maes - The Future Of Yesterday
, Ludion , 2013 Hardcover, 247 pages, English, 290 x 250 x 25 mm, good condition, with photographs in colour, . ISBN 9789461300867.
In this fascinating collection of photographs, the Belgian artist Ives Maes explores the architecture of world expos. He sets the faded glory of these sites against the ambitious and utopian project, full of promise, represented by the first world exhibition. Maes shows how time has taken its toll on these architectural monuments and pavilions, now decayed, abandoned, or torn from their original context. In this comprehensive book, Maes?s photographs are set alongside images of the Great Exhibition in London (1851) through to the most recent expo in Shanghai (2010). The images are accompanied by essays from Anna Jackson, Elena Filipovic and Catherine L. Futter on the history of world fairs, the role of photography and the sculptural character of Maes?s photographic work
HANS MEMLING BRUGES
, Hannibal Books, 2024 HB, 292 x 245 mm, 208 pages, Illustrations en couleurs en noir & blanc nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte .FR edition neuf. ISBN 9789464666908.
Ouvre poustouflante de Hans Memling, le Primitif flamand Bruges Hans Memling (vers 1435-1494), artiste cl parmi les Primitifs flamands, est inextricablement li la ville de Bruges. Le Retable des deux saints Jean et la Ch sse de sainte Ursule, qu'il a r alis s pour l'h pital Saint-Jean, figurent parmi ses oeuvres les plus impressionnantes. Sept autres chefs-d'oeuvre de ce ma tre du xve si cle sont encore expos s Bruges, au Mus e H pital Saint-Jean et au Mus e Groeninge, o l'on peut toujours les admirer. Cet ouvrage pr sente les peintures poustouflantes de Memling et les d crit dans leurs moindres d tails. Il offre une occasion unique de mieux conna tre ou de red couvrir l'ensemble de son oeuvre. Anna Koopstra, conservatrice de la peinture flamande ancienne Musea Brugge, explique, dans des textes accessibles tous, la puissance de l'imagination de Memling, sa ma trise technique et le contexte culturel dans lequel le peintre a v cu et travaill .
HANS MEMLING IN BRUGES.
, Hannibal Books, 2024 HB, 292 x 245 mm, 208 p, throughout color illustrations, ENG edition ISBN 9789464666892.
Breathtaking work by Hans Memling, the Flemish Primitive in Bruges The Flemish Primitive artist Hans Memling (c. 1435-1494), who played a crucial role in early Netherlandish painting, is inextricably associated with Bruges. Among his most impressive creations are the St John Altarpiece and the St Ursula Shrine, which he created for St John's Hospital in the city. Seven more of this fifteenth-century master's finest works can also be seen in Bruges, at what is now the St John's Hospital Museum and at the Groeninge Museum. This book describes Memling's breathtaking paintings in close detail, while offering readers the opportunity to (re)discover his oeuvre as a whole. In a series of accessible essays, Anna Koopstra, curator of early Netherlandish painting at Musea Brugge, explores Memling's imagination, his technical brilliance and the cultural context in which the artist lived and worked.
HANS MEMLING IN BRUGGE
, Hannibal Books, 2024 HB, 292 x 245 mm, 208 pages, met illustraties in kleur nieuw! NL tekst. ISBN 9789464666885.
Het adembenemende werk van Hans Memling, de Vlaamse primitief in Brugge De Vlaamse primitief Hans Memling (ca. 1435-1494), die een cruciale rol speelde in de vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst, is onlosmakelijk verbonden met Brugge. Tot zijn indrukwekkendste creaties behoren ongetwijfeld het Johannesaltaar en het Ursulaschrijn, die hij maakte in opdracht van het Sint-Janshospitaal. Daarnaast zijn nog zeven andere topwerken van de oude meester te bewonderen in het Brugse Museum Sint-Janshospitaal en het Groeningemuseum. Dit boek toont Memlings adembenemende kunstwerken tot in de kleinste details en biedt een unieke gelegenheid om zijn werk beter te leren kennen of te herontdekken. Anna Koopstra, conservator vroeg-Nederlandse schilderkunst van Musea Brugge, vertelt in toegankelijke essays over Memlings verbeeldingskracht, zijn technische meesterschap en de culturele context waarin de schilder leefde en werkte.
Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470-1535/36) Making, Meaning and Patronage of his Works
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2023 Hardback,Pages: 160 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm Illustrations:10 b/w, 105 col.Language(s):English. ISBN 9782503574370.
The book by Anna Koopstra about Jean Bellegambe adds an extremely careful, thorough, and beautifully produced study to the monographs on early Dutch painters. (...) More traditional art historical research?iconographic, stylistic, archival, and historiographic?is combined with modern technical research and a keen eye for drawings and graphics as visual sources for the artist. (?) The beautifully produced and clearly written book represents excellent and versatile art historical research that, through in-depth analysis of a small group of characteristic artworks, offers a new perspective on an important artist, his work and methods, as well as the impact of that distinctive body of work." Drs. Lidewij de Koekkoek (VNK, Frans Hals Museum) - Jury President - 2023 Karel van Manderprijs BIO Anna Koopstra (1980) studied art history at the University of Groningen (MA, 2004) and obtained her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD, 2016). She has held curatorial positions and research fellowships at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum (2005-08), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Slifka interdisciplinary Fellow, 2008-10), The National Gallery (2015-17), and the Courtauld (Associate Caroline Villers Research Fellow, 2016/17). Her research focuses on the technical investigation of paintings, and in particular on the making and meaning of early Netherlandish paintings. SUMMARY Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470- 1535/36), whose career as far as we know spanned the first three decades of the sixteenth century, was a successful painter. His patrons included some of the most high-ranking clerics in the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands as well as members of the ruling class of Douai, the town where he lived and worked all his life. This is the first study to appear since Dehaisnes' 1890 monograph that is exclusively devoted to the artist. By reassessing primary evidence - archival documents and material evidence from the works of art themselves - it aims to highlight Bellegambe's artistic achievements. Close scrutiny of his paintings and investigation of the artist's working methods will show that Bellegambe visualised the concerns of his patrons by closely linking the physical characteristics of his works to their original imagery, function and use. This volume presents a series of five case studies of his works that were made for a monastic community, two individual clerics, a town hall and a bourgeois layman, thus providing rich evidence of patronage and audiences. The objective here is to examine how Bellegambe met the challenges posed by these commissions, and to gain further insight into the practice of a skilled artist who - rooted in a long line of craftsmanship and artistic tradition and in close collaboration with his colleagues and patrons - produced a body of highly original works. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I The Artist?s Life and Career Life Works Posthumous legacy CHAPTER II Oeuvre and Patrons The Anchin Polyptych Similar patrons, similar commissions Other works CHAPTER III Preliminary Observations on Materials and Working Methods Panels and frames Underdrawing and painting technique Technical evidence and questions of attribution Workshop CHAPTER IV Jean Bellegambe and the Convent of Flines: Reconsidering The Cellier Altarpiece Monastic reform and the convent of Flines The evolution of the composition Interpreting the iconographic program Location, audience, date CHAPTER V Clerical Devotion and the Monastic Milieu: The Diptych of the Virgin and Child with Saint Bernard and an Unidentified Cistercian Monk The Virgin and child as an object of clerical devotion The abbess as exemplar CHAPTER VI Self-Representation and Piety for the Here and the Hereafter: Abbot William of Brussels and the Triptych of the Annunciation William of Brussels as a patron Function and location CHAPTER VII Painting as a Moral Compass: Triptych of the Last Judgment The Last Judgment, the Four Last Things, and visions of heaven and hell Function and audience CHAPTER VIII Civic Duty, Charitable Giving, and the Wish to Be Commemorated: The Pottier Triptych and the Pottier Family Reviewing the archival evidence Iconography and meaning Scenes of the life of Saint Anne, demi-grisaille, and the reality of giving CONCLUSION Bibliography
Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350?1650
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Hardback, Pages: 346 pages, Size:210 x 275 mm Illustrations:250 col. Language(s):English. ISBN 9781912554751.
This volume honors Maryan W. Ainsworth, curator emerita at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and former adjunct professor at Barnard College, whose work as a scholar, curator, and teacher has profoundly impacted the study of early northern European painting. Contributions by leading specialists from museums and academia, including former interns and fellows, reflect Ainsworth?s emphasis on the centrality of the object and on the interdisciplinary methods of technical art history, while also paying homage to the variety of Ainsworth?s research interests as a whole. The essays explore topics such as the working methods of individual artists, workshop practice, artistic collaboration, and patronage across a range of media?mainly painting, but also manuscript illumination, drawing, tapestry, sculpture, and stained glass. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Anna Koopstra, Christine Seidel, and Joshua P. Waterman Maryan W. Ainsworth: An AppreciationChronological Bibliography of Maryan W. Ainsworth Keith Christiansen The Fourteenth-Century Bohemian Virgin and Child Enthroned at The Met: Some Preliminary Thoughts Till-Holger Borchert Collaborator or Follower of Jan van Eyck? The Painter of the Simpson Carson Virgin Reconsidered Stephan Kemperdick Petrus Christus?s Altarpiece of 1452: A New Reconstruction Ron Spronk Jan Provoost before c.1500: The Documentary Evidence Molly Faries Maarten van Heemskerck?s Early Lamentation of Christ: The Beginning of a Long Career Maximiliaan P. J. Martens A Christ as the Man of Sorrows by Quinten Massys Julien Chapuis and Sophie Hoffmann From Wood to Silver: Michel Erhart and Heinrich Hufnagel at the Bode Museum Dagmar Eichberger The Cult of Mary Magdalene and Jacques de Saint-Nectaire?s Tapestry Series for the Abbey Church of La Chaise-Dieu (1518) Diane Wolfthal The Color of Money and Other Temporary Natural Alterations in Silver-Stained Windows Sandra Hindriks Optical Illusion as Epistemological Challenge: Konrad Witz?s Saint Christopher Peter Parshall Ad vivum: Observations on Hugo van der Goes?s Monforte Altarpiece in Berlin Alice Hoppe-Harnoncourt ?PRIMA TABVLA HABET IMAGINES?: A Reconsideration of Bernhard Strigel?s Family Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I Thomas Kren On the Role of an Early-Sixteenth-Century Drawing in Netherlandish Luxury Manuscript Production Daantje Meuwissen A Portable Artistic Resource: The Practical Uses of the Pocket-Size Sketchbook of Cornelis Anthonisz (c.1505?1553) Dan Ewing A Tale of Two Altarpieces: Jan de Beer?s Birmingham and Madrid Paintings Peter van den Brink The Stigmatization of Saint Francis by Joos van Cleve: A New Discovery Sophie Scully The Examination and Treatment of the Annunciation by Joos van Cleve at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ronda Kasl Things They Do Not Have: Royal Spanish Gifts for the Emperor of China Melanie Gifford Rembrandt and the Rembrandtesque: The Experience of Artistic Process and Its Imitation
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Bronze Coins of Eastern Mount Ossa in the Thessalian Perioikic Region of Magnesia. Homolion, Eureai, Eurymenai, and Meliboia
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xxviii + 232 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:226 b/w, 7 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9780897223959.
Summary This monograph examines the Late Classical and Hellenistic bronze coinages of five mints in the Thessalian perioikic region of Magnesia. At the core of this work lies a new die-study of the coins produced by the strategically and economically important coastal cities of Homolion and Meliboia as well as the lesser-known mints of Eureai, Eurymenai, and Rhizous. Combining this die-study with a close examination of the cities' topographical context in a border region between Thessaly and Macedon and drawing on archaeological data from Magnesia and beyond, the monograph addresses key questions concerning the chronology, denominations, and circulation patterns of the bronze issues minted on eastern Mount Ossa. This analysis not only throws new light on coin production in Late Classical and Hellenistic Magnesia, but also allows a discussion of the possible military and non-military functions of the region's different bronze issues. Placing the coins of Eureai, Eurymenai, Homolion, Meliboia, and Rhizous in their wider context, this monograph furthermore addresses broader issues in the history of Thessalian coinage. In particular, the monograph's regional approach offers an unusual opportunity to examine to what extent Thessaly's Late Classical and Hellenistic civic coins were genuinely local in design, production, and function. The monograph thus both explores the coins of Mount Ossa and contributes towards a better understanding of the introduction and development of bronze coinages in the wider Thessalian region and beyond. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures List of Plates 1. Setting the Scene: Thessalian Bronze Coinages 2. The Topography and Political Geography of Eastern Mount Ossa 3. The Cities of Eastern Mount Ossa and their Coinages (Homolion, Meliboia, Eurymenai, Rhizous, and Eureai) 4. The Chronology of the Coinages of Mount Ossa 5. The Bronze Coinages of Northeastern Magnesia: Circulation, Denominations, and Patterns of Minting Activity 6. The Bronze Coinages of Northeastern Magnesia: Two Possible Functions 7. Conclusion: Bronze Coinages between Magnesia, Thessaly, and Macedone Bibliography Appendix I: Catalogue of Coins Appendix II: Tables Indexes (Coins by Collection, Coins by Excavation and Findspot, Coins by Auction, Sources, General) Plates
Collective Wisdom. Collecting in the Early Modern Academy
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 325 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:51 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588063.
Summary This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before knowledge became subspecialised, had many common members. We focus upon how their exploration of natural philosophy, antiquarianism, and medicine were reflected in collecting practice, the organisation of specimens and how knowledge was classified and disseminated. The overall shift from curiosity cabinets with objects playfully crossing the domains of art and nature, to their well-ordered Enlightenment museums is well known. Collective Wisdom analyses the process through which this transformation occurred, and the role of members of these academies in developing new techniques of classifying and organising objects and new uses of these objects for experimental and pedagogical purposes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Vera Keller and Anna Marie Roos, Introduction Kelly J. Whitmer, Putting Play to Work: Collections of Realia and Useful Play in Early Modern Educational Reform Efforts Chantal Grell, Tito Livio Burattini, a Seventeenth-Century Engineer and Egyptologist Georgiana Hedesan, University Reform and Medical Alchemy in Ole Worm's Museum Wormianum (1655) Fabien Kr mer, The Curiosi as Collectores: The Publications of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, c. 1652-1706 Vera Keller, Vernacular Knowledge, Learned Medicine, and Social Technologies in the Leopoldina, 1670-1700, or, How to Publish on Sirens, Dragons, and Basilisks Philip Beeley, 'The Antiquity, Excellence, and use of Musick': Wallis, Wanley, and the Reception of Ancient Greek Music in Late Seventeenth-Century Oxford Julia A. Schmidt-Funke, Urban Fabric and Knowledge of Nature: Physicians as Naturalists in Early Modern Commercial Towns Kim Sloan, Sloane's Antiquities: Providing a 'Body of History' through Beads, Bottles, Brasses and Busts Dustin Frazier Wood, Antiquarian Science and Scientific Antiquarianism at the Spalding Gentlemen's Society Anna Marie Roos, The First Egyptian Society Louisiane Ferlier, Collective Wisdom in the Digital Age: Digitizing Early Modern Collections at the Royal Society
PALIMPSEST form and meaning of a recently discovered late medieval panel from Nuremberg.
BE - , De Backker medieval art, Hardcover 57 PAGES Color illustrations .
PALIMPSEST form and meaning of a recently discovered late medieval panel from Nuremberg.
Goya. The Complete Prints, complete collection of his 287 etchings and lithographs,
, Taschen, 2025 Hardcover in slipcase, XL, 24.3 x 30.4 cm, 3.78 kg, 600 pages, Multilingual (English, French, German). *NEW. ISBN 9783836581516.
The Soul of Spain, The entirety of the artist?s etchings and lithographs collected in one volume; With acute powers of observation and artistic innovation, Francisco de Goya captured the soul of the Spanish nation in turmoil, around the dawn of the 19th century. In this complete collection of his 287 etchings and lithographs, we see into the mind of an artist unafraid to navigate the depths of human folly, hypocrisy, violence, and power. Francisco de Goya was one of the most innovative peintre-graveurs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, his etchings and lithographs masterpieces of modern printmaking. Trained in Spain and Italy, and appointed First Court Painter to Charles IV early in his career, he brought the sensibilities of the Enlightenment into uneasy dialogue with the brutal realities of his time. Whether working in single sheets, like the harrowing The Garrotted Man or the sublime Seated Giant, or across his celebrated series?the satirical Caprichos, the unflinching Desastres de la Guerra, the dynamic Tauromaquia, and the nightmarish Disparates?Goya chronicled both the spirit and the shadows of a world in upheaval, where the individual was often crushed by violence, superstition, or power. These weren?t just reflections on Spanish society. They were indictments, meditations, and warnings, etched in copperplates. This landmark collection of 287 etchings and lithographs gathers Goya?s complete printed ?uvre, including editions produced under his direct supervision, as well as rare state proofs from unpublished series, giving uncommon insight into his restless experimentation and meticulous control over the printmaking process. With a detailed commentary on each image and commanding essays by Jos Manuel Matilla and Anna Reuter, this volume is the culmination of more than two centuries of scholarly research, and is a searing visual narrative. Goya did not simply depict his world. He dissected it, laying bare the eternal tensions between reason and madness, justice and cruelty, hope and despair.
Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450
, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xvii + 194 pages, Size:205 x 255 mm, Illustrations:94 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442154.
Summary This is not a book about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary (be they icons, sculptures, altarpieces, or reliquaries) but about their representations in French illuminated manuscripts from ca. 1250 to ca. 1450. Most of these depictions of the Virgin Mary cannot be identified even tangentially with particular surviving images (such as the Virgins of Rocamadour, Soissons, Chartres, and Laon). Rather, these illustrations point to the ubiquity of local miraculous Marian images in devotional practices from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in French-speaking regions. This book analyzes depictions of material images and the animated miracles they perform, and traces their evolution from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in Old French to texts and images produced at the Burgundian court of the late Middle Ages. Beginning with the most extensive compilation of Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame, the study then examines lesser-known anonymous works such as the Vie des P res and encyclopedic collections including the French version of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale and the Ci nous dit, as well as a theatrical production of the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages, before concluding with the prose rendering of the Miracles by Jean Mi lot. Imagining the Miraculous explores the ways in which these works depict physical images, such as panel paintings and sculptures, on the manuscript page. Each chapter provides a detailed iconographical analysis of the miniatures and the diverse techniques of visual narrative they harness, serving also to show how attentive reading of their reception can help us understand how the miniatures themselves might have led viewers to imagine the miraculous moment when an image comes to life.
FRANS HALS : Oog in oog met Rembrandt, Rubens en Titiaan
, Nai010 Uitgevers/Publishers 2013, 2013 Softcover, 160 pagina's, Nederlands, 285 x 235 mm, boek in prima staat, met veel illustraties in kleur, . ISBN 9789462080522.
2013 is uitgeroepen tot Frans Hals Jaar. Het is dan precies 100 jaar geleden dat het Frans Hals Museum zijn deuren opende. De belangrijkste tentoonstelling in dit jubileumjaar is 'Frans Hals. Oog in oog met Rembrandt, Rubens en Titiaan', waarin sleutelstukken van Frans Hals worden gepresenteerd te midden van schilderijen van beroemde collega's onder wie Titiaan, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Jordaens en Rubens. In de gelijknamige publicatie worden alle werken uit de tentoonstelling zij aan zij gepresenteerd, zodat de lezer de meesterwerken kan vergelijken en kan zien hoe de kunstenaars elkaar inspireerden. Deze bijzondere confrontaties van meesterschilders zijn essentieel om zeventiende-eeuwse kunst te begrijpen. Beroemde schilders maakten hun werken immers vaak in reactie op elkaar, met de bedoeling de ander te overtreffen en iets bijzonders neer te zetten. Internationale specialisten werpen een nieuw licht op Hals' virtuositeit, zijn rol in de zeventiende eeuw en zijn artistieke relatie met zijn collega's uit Antwerpen (Rubens, Van Dyck) en Amsterdam (Rembrandt).
Architectures of Belonging Inhabiting Worlds in Rural West Africa
, BAI, paperback, 240 pages, ill. 24,6 x 17,1 x 2 cm English text. fine condition. ISBN 9789085865902.
What is a house? What is dwelling? How can a house be a body? What does ''being modern'' mean in rural Africa? How are local and global worlds intertwined through material culture? This book reflects on the meanings of housing in West Africa by analysing vernacular architectural traditions and the related ideas and worldviews grounding these building traditions. In the West, much attention is paid to the quality of housing in terms of material comfort and durability. However, houses no longer grow organically, and are no longer layered by time, or embedded in a social community and intertwined with the natural environment. The house, and even more the interior of the house, has become an expression of the individuality of the inhabitant (witness the whole marketing of lifestyle, design, interior decoration, cocooning, etcetera). Paradoxically, though, this goes hand in hand with the erosion of the house as a signifier. Houses are becoming almost generic realities, without a memory or a past, the anonymous results of mass-production, or the interchangeable, standardized products of a globalised Ikea and turnkey culture. Many of the important phases of the lifecycles of the inhabitants no longer unfold within the house, but are evacuated to spaces external to it (hospitals, restaurants, hotels, party rooms, funeral homes, banquet halls). In contrast to the poor signifier that the Western house has become, the chapters in this book analyse the rich meanings embedded in the processes of dwelling in rural West African worlds, with a specific emphasis on Ghana and Burkina Faso. At the same time, the authors document the changes that are manifest in the material and social structures of these houses, and show the flexibility and responsiveness of traditional practices of building and dwelling when confronted with the influences of urban modernity. As such, this reflection on local architectural forms also deals with many of the challenges and issues currently facing Africa.
Experience Shopping : Where, Why and How People Shop
, Lannoo Publishers 2008, 2008 Softcover, 208 pages, English, 310 x 240 mm, fine copy, illustrated cover, . ISBN 9789020978575.
Shopping has become an increasingly important aspect of life - it has become one of the favourite leisure activities of the twenty-first century. But where do we shop? And why? How do we choose where to shop and what to buy? What drives the need for 'retail therapy'? Experience Shopping analyses the things that retailers do to entice the shopper - to get into our brains, our emotions and our lives. The book includes major brand names such as Starbucks, The Gap, Apple, Nokia, Orange, Nike and Armani.
Kati Heck.
, Kannibaal, 2016 Gebonden, Hardcover. 29 x 24,7 cm,144 bladzijden, Quadrichromie,Tweetalige editie Nederlands-Frans . ISBN 9789492081544.
Kati Heck wordt beschouwd als een erfgename van het Duitse expressionisme. Haar werk doet denken aan de bars, dansers en acteurs van Otto Dix en George Grosz, net als aan de oude meesters. Ze synthetiseert stijlen en is net zo goed een abstracte expressionist als een realist. Delen van haar schilderijen zijn minutieus weergegeven op gestikte doeken, met een unieke virtuositeit en acute aandacht voor detail, terwijl andere delen abstracter weergegeven of zelfs gebeeldhouwd worden. De manier waarop ze niet-traditionele materialen en alledaagse objecten in innovatieve en eigenzinnige combinaties verwerkt, herinnert aan Robert Rauschenberg. Hecks portretten belichamen een diepe, overtuigende en sociale visie, en zijn tegelijk ondoorgrondelijk persoonlijk. De weergegeven onderwerpen zijn meer dan enkel acteurs, het zijn meestal zelfportretten en personen uit haar directe omgeving. Haar werk werd onlangs geexposeerd in CAC Malaga en Mary Boone Gallery New York, en wordt de komende maanden getoond in Expo Chicago en het Antwerpse M HKA. Met tekstbijdragen van onder meer Ann Demeester (Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen Haarlem) en wijlen Jan Hoet, een verhaal door Woody Allen en een gesprek met Luc Tuymans.
Kati Heck.
, Hatje Cantz, 2016 Hardcover. 29 x 24,7 cm,144 pages , Quadrichromie, Text in English / German *New book! ISBN 9783775741316.
German Expressionism and New Objectivity shine forth in the paintings by Kati Heck (*1979 in D sseldorf). Her monumental paintings impress viewers with their humorous blend of styles, consisting of photorealistic figures together with graphic elements. Some sections of the collage-like works are meticulously painted in, while others are quickly executed. Like Robert Rauschenberg, Heck joins nontraditional materials and everyday objects to develop highly unusual pictorial creations. ?She clearly, convincingly, and permanently questions the art of painting,? says Jan Hoet about her oeuvre. The volume on Kati Heck focuses primarily on the painting of one of the most interesting aspiring artists of today.
Kursaal and Promenade. L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) and Atmospheric Solitude by the Sea Anne Adriaens-Pannier
, Hannibal Books, 2023 softcover, 112 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm, Quadrichromy Illustrated., English edition. . ISBN 9789464666458.
A lone walker at dawn in Ostend, L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) is entranced by the bleak and ominous desolation of the promenade. A fascination with spatiality and the expression of infinity underlie the numerous dyke scenes Spilliaert created between 1907 and 1909, heralding a unique, formal innovation. Learn more about the compelling Kursaal and Promenade that is the centrepiece of this Phoebus Focus.
KURSAAL AND PROMENADE (PHOEBUS FOCUS XXXII) L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) and Atmospheric Solitude by the Sea
, Phoebus Focus XXXII, 2023 PB+, 210 x 148 mm, 112 p, ENG, ill. in colour / b/w, New, ISBN 9789464666458.
Als eenzame wandelaar in het ochtendgloren van Oostende laat L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) zich begeesteren door de desolate en onheilspellende verlatenheid van de zeedijk. De fascinatie voor ruimtewerking en de expressie van oneindigheid liggen aan de grondslag van de talrijke dijkzichten die Spilliaert tussen 1907 en 1909 cre ert en waarmee hij een unieke formele vernieuwing inluidt. Ontdek het beklijvende werk Kursaal en zeedijk dat in deze Phoebus Focus centraal staat.
Kursaal en zeedijk L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) en atmosferische eenzaamheid bij de zee
, Hannibal Books, 2023 softcover, 112 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm, Quadrichromy Illustrated., Nederlandstalige editie . ISBN 9789464666441.
Als eenzame wandelaar in het ochtendgloren van Oostende laat L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) zich begeesteren door de desolate en onheilspellende verlatenheid van de zeedijk. De fascinatie voor ruimtewerking en de expressie van oneindigheid liggen aan de grondslag van de talrijke dijkzichten die Spilliaert tussen 1907 en 1909 cre ert en waarmee hij een unieke formele vernieuwing inluidt. Ontdek het beklijvende werk Kursaal en zeedijk dat in deze Phoebus Focus centraal staat.
Leon Spilliaert. Le reve des autres, Illustrateur de Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Hellens,
, Van de Wiele, 2018 Couverture reliee, HB, 300 x 220 mm, 240 p, throughout illustrations, Texte en Francais. ISBN 9789076297729.
Elles sont pratiquement inconnues de la plupart des amateurs d'art: les illustrations de Leon Spilliaert (1881-1946) dans des editions de l'oeuvre d'ecrivains belges comme Emile Verhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck, Franz Hellens, Paul Neuhuys et bien d'autres. Spilliaert a illustre leurs recueils de poesie et pieces de theatre, et meme un livre pour enfants, de dessins a l'encre de Chine et a l'aquarelle, ou il a laisse libre cours a son inspiration dans sa visualisation de l'univers onirique des auteurs. Ce volet foisonnant de son art est enfin devoile au public par la specialiste de Spilliaert, Anne Adriaens-Pannier. L'ouvrage accompagne l'exposition Le reve des autres a La Maison Spilliaert a Ostende (du 19 novembre 2017 au 2 avril 2018), ou sont reunies les editions en question, rehaussees de dessins originaux ou d'illustrations imprimees, et des oeuvres autonomes de l'artiste en rapport avec son travail d'illustrateur. Les pieces exposees, issues de collections publiques et particulieres, presentent pour la premiere fois - et probablement la seule - un panorama complet des creations de Spilliaert inspirees de la litterature.
L ON SPILLIAERT. DE DROOM VAN ANDEREN
, Van de Wiele, hardcover, 290 x 215 mm, 240 pagina's, doorlopend illustraties NL editie. *nieuwstaat. ISBN 9789076297712.
Bij de meeste kunstliefhebbers zijn ze vrijwel onbekend: de illustraties van L on Spilliaert (1881-1946) in uitgaven van het werk van Belgische schrijvers als Emile Verhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck, Franz Hellens, Paul Neuhuys en vele anderen. Spilliaert illustreerde hun dichtbundels en theaterstukken, en zelfs een kinderboek, met tekeningen in Oost-Indische inkt en aquarelverf, of liet zijn inspiratie de vrije loop bij het visualiseren van de droomwereld van de auteurs. Dit rijke deelgebied van zijn kunst wordt door Spilliaertspecialiste Anne Adriaens-Pannier eindelijk voor het publiek ontsloten. Dit boek begeleidt de tentoonstelling De droom van anderen in Het Spilliaert Huis in Oostende (van 19 november 2017 t.e.m. 2 april 2018), waar de uitgaven met originele tekeningen of gedrukte illustraties en aanverwante autonome werken samen te zien zijn. De stukken, uit openbare en particuliere collecties, bieden voor het eerst, en waarschijnlijk eenmalig, een volledig beeld van Spilliaerts literair ge nspireerde creaties.
