Imperial treasures
Subtitle: Van Eyck, Gossaert, Bruegel : masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
By: edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Till-Holger Borchert, Manfred Sellink ; with contributions from Björn Blauensteiner ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of Virginie D'haene, Guenevere Souffreau, Tine Van Poucke
Contributors: Groeningemuseum; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Publisher: Lanoo
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tielt [Belgium]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789020962024
Subjects: Netherlandish Painting; Exhibitions; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Other titles: Imperial treasures :
Description: "The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is home to one of the world's most important collections of early Netherlandish painting. The origin of those rich holdings can be traced back to 1477, when the Burgundian Netherlands became a Habsburg possession on Mary of Burgundy's marriage to Archduke Maximilian of Austria. Imperial Treasures. Masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is the fruit of the outstanding exhibition of the same name at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges. The book is devoted to a unique selection of fifteenth and sixteenth-century masterpieces from the Low Countries in the museum's collection. In a series of essays by leading scholars, it explores the history of the collection and the emergence of the various pictorial genres. The exceptionally early development of history, portrait, landscape and genre painting in the Low Countries laid the foundations for the unprecedented flowering of both Flemish and Dutch painting in the seventeenth century."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Oct. 5, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208).
Table of contents: title: Preface / Sabine Haag and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden; title: Foreword / Till-Holger Borchert and Manfred Sellink; title: Imperial treasures: masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden; title: Flemish portaiture / Till-Holger Borchert; title: Forms of worship: on the changing function of religious painting in the low countries / Björn Blauensteiner; title: Netherlanders always win priase with landscape painting: landscape painting in Netherlandish art from Van Eyck to Bruegel / Manfred Sellink; title: Everything seemed to live: scenes from everyday life / Gerlinde Gruber; title: Artist's biographies.