From Floris to Rubens
Subtitle: master drawings from a Belgian private collection
By: edited by Stefaan Hautekeete
Contributors: Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique; Bonnefantenmuseum
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9789461612717
Subjects: Dutch Drawing; Exhibitions; Drawing; Private collections; Flemish Drawing
Description: Published on the occasion of an exhibition featuring ninety drawings from artists from the southern and northern Netherlands created during the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. In addition to beautiful sketches for prints, paintings, stained glass and tapestries by great masters such as Frans Floris and Peter Paul Rubens, other sheets like the sublime figure studies of Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis De Vos or the so accurately detailed landscapes of Pieter Stevens and Adriaen Frans Boudewijns are put in the spotlights. The majority of the selected drawings have never been shown to the public before. Exhibition: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussels, Belgium (20.01-15.05.2016).
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, January 20 - May 15, 2016, and at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, July 15 - October 30, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-271).