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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Heleen van Ketwich Verschuur |
Publisher | Fonds Mercator |
Year | 2011 |
Cover | Paperback with flaps |
Language | French |
ISBN | 978-90-6153-354-2 |
Pages | 256 |
Weight | 1410 g |
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Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Hermitage, Amsterdam |
Article ID | art-17729 |
This book gives an excellent overview of Flemish art from the Hermitage in St Petersburg. A large proportion was acquired in the eighteenth century by Catherine the Great, from superb collections such as those of Crozat and Brühl, which she bought up in their entirety. Many of these paintings originally hung in churches and monasteries in Antwerp and other European cities.
Most attention focuses on the 'big three': Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Rubens was the most important, the most talented, and the most influential seventeenth-century Flemish painter. He was also a phenomenon in his day, a true homo universalis. The portraits produced by Van Dyck for the court of King Charles I of England also share the limelight, along with impressive history paintings by Jordaens, exuding the vibrant atmosphere in which he excelled.
Beaucoup ont été acquises au XVIIe siècle par Catherine la Grande et proviennent de remarquables collections, comme celles de Crozat et de Brühl, achetées dans leur totalité par l'impératrice. À l'origine, plusieurs de ces pièces ornaient les églises et les couvents d'Anvers et d'autres villes européennes.
Les « trois grands » de la peinture flamande du XVIIe siècle sont largement mis à l'honneur : Pierre Paul Rubens, Antoine van Dyck et Jacob Jordaens. Rubens fut le principal, le plus talentueux et le plus influent peintre de son époque, un homo universalis. Les portraits réalisés par Van Dyck pour la cour d'Angleterre sont aussi largement représentés. Jordaens excelle dans d'imposantes scènes historiques, qui baignent dans une atmosphère de joie de vivre.