Peter Snayers
Subtitle: Between Remembrance and Glorification - A Contextual Study of the Topographical Battle Paintings for the Habsburg Elite
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9782503567280
Subjects: Painters, europe; Belgium, biography; Painting, baroque
Description: Using unpublished archival documents Snayers's topographical oeuvre is constructed and studied in detail. The author identifies and examines Snayers's artistic inventions based on the works of predecessors and colleagues. He reconstructs Snayers's patronage network on the basis of archival documents and the canvases themselves. New light is shed on one of his most important commissions, thanks to unpublished correspondence. By analyzing a wide range of previously unpublished archival documents on the painter as well as his works of art and patrons, this book restores Peter Snayers's oeuvre.