Rogier van der Weyden and stone sculpture in Brussels
Rogier van der Weyden's painted oeuvre has been the subject of many publications. But his artistic activities were much wider in scope. With its focus on stone sculpture in Brussels at the time that Rogier was working there, an area of art history that to date has been little studied, this book...
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| Document Type: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
: Miller
, 2013
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| Series: | Distinguished contributions to the study of arts in the Burgundian Netherlands
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| Author Notes: | Bart Fransen |
| Summary: | Rogier van der Weyden's painted oeuvre has been the subject of many publications. But his artistic activities were much wider in scope. With its focus on stone sculpture in Brussels at the time that Rogier was working there, an area of art history that to date has been little studied, this book offers a fresh and fascinating look at the context in which Brussels's famous city painter worked. Exploring the complex network of stoneworkers and craftsmen, from the stone quarry to the sculptor's workshop, the raw material to the finished work, Bart Fransen discovers a number of remarkable but hitherto unknown or misjudged sculptures now in churches, an abbey, a béguinage, a museum's reserve collection and a castle chapel. With these various case studies in mind he examines Rogier van der Weyden's direct involvement in sculptural projects, drawing on the evidence revealed by archive documents, drawings and the sculptures themselves. Tiles form an important part of the great Dutch tradition of tin-glazed earthenware, internationally renowned as 'Delftware'. The presence of the right raw materials and know-how as well as a sufficiently large clientele allowed tile production to reach an impressive scale in the provinces of Holland, Friesland and Utrecht. In this way the Netherlands wrote its own fascinating chapter in the world history of tiles. In this publication the Foundation of Friends of the Dutch Tile Museum in Otterlo present tiles and tile pictures from the Friends' collections. The catalogue gives a detailed description of all the items illustrated. Supplemented by a number if examples from museum collections, a canon of approximately four hundred years of Dutch tile culture is thus created and also opened up to an international audience |
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| Physical Description: | 237 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt |
| ISBN: | 9781909400153 |
