Frans Francken ... and his milieu
Subtitle: Old paths, new roads
By: Natasja Peeters & Ann Diels
Contributors: Peeters, Natasja, editor; Diels, Ann, editor
Publisher: VUB Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Brussel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9789057187469
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation; Flemish Painting; History painting; Painters; Biography
Description: In May 2014 the Rubenianum in Antwerp hosted the conference 'Frans Francken and his Milieu, Old Paths, New Roads', on the initiative of dr. Ann Diels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and dr. Natasja Peeters (War Heritage Institute Brussels). Both researchers wanted to draw more attention to research into art in the Southern Netherlands during the late sixteenth century. Dedicating the symposium to one of the most productive history and portrait painters of that period, Frans Francken, opened the door to a range of research tracks.  This conference collection includes thirteen essays by national and international specialists in sixteenth-century art of the Netherlands. The essays focus on various aspects of the work and life of the Antwerp history painter Frans Francken the Elder, the Francken dynasty, and his milieu. An artist's work and life knows many facets, and data have to be culled from many sources. By providing a mosaic of research methods and tracks, the essays makes an attempt to visualize the complexity and richness of the research field. This small selection from the realm of possibilities mainly wants to encourage further research.
Notes: Includes abstracts of four papers presented at the conference but not included in the volume.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-188).

Contributions in English, French, Dutch, and German.
Table of contents: title: Gedicht: Voor Frans en Jeroen Francken / Bart Stouten; title: Family tree; title: Preface / Natasja Peeters & Ann Diels; title: Aspecten van de historieschilderkunst in Antwerpen tussen 1585 en 1609: een kantelmoment in de kunstgeschiedenis van de stad  / Hans Vlieghe; title: Frans Francken ... en zijn milieu: historiografie en status questionis / Natasja Peeters & Ann Diels; title: Contre-réforme et gothic revivial: un emprunt de Frans Francken l'ancien à Hugo van der Goes / Didier Martens; title: "Ne Jupiter quidem omnibus placet!" Ambrosius Francken and Philip Galle and their print series of the hermit, his son and their donkey (c. 1585?), a visual fable with a religious-political message for the good listener? / Ann Diels; title: "Au Lionceau rouge": modèles, contrats et la génèse des tableaux d'autel à Anvers ca. 1585 / Nattasja Peeters; title: Behandelingsdossier van de buitenste zijluiken van her altaarstuk van de schoolmeesters en de zeepzieders van Frans Francken (1587) / David Lainé; title: "Veronika reicht Christus das Schweisstuch": Frans Francken I (ca. 1542-1616) oder Frans II (1581-1642)? / Ursula Härting; title: Frans Francken's houses and workshops: an archival and building-historical survey / Petra Maclot; title: Over de drempel bij Frans Francken: op zoek naar zijn huisraad en kunstbezit in 1617 / Ria Fabri; title: De boedelinventaris van Frans Francken (15 februari 1617) / Natasja Peeters; title: "Feeling painting": the application of the senses to religious painting at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries / Ralph Deconinck; title: Conclusions / Natasja Peeters & Ann Diels.