Understanding art in Antwerp
Subtitle: classicising the popular, popularising the classic (1540-1580)
By: edited by Bart Ramakers
Series: Groningen studies in cultural change -- v. XLV; Groningen studies in cultural change -- v. 45.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven; Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789042926134
Subjects: Painters; Art; Art criticism; Congresses; Artists; Painting; Biography
Other titles: Classicising the popular, popularising the classic (1540-1580)
Notes: Papers presented at an international symposium held from Jan. 23-24, 2008 in Groningen, Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Session I; title: Lost in Translation? Thinking about Classical and Vernacular Art in Antwerp, 1540-1580 / Joanna Woodall; title: After the Flood. Luxurious Antwerp and Antiquity / David Rijser; title: Session II; title: Reformulating St Luke. Frans Floris on Art and Diligence / Annette de Vries; title: The Annexation of the Antique. The Topic of the Living Picture in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp / Caecilie Weissert; title: St Luke's Diligence / Elizabeth Honig; title: Session III; title: Classical Architecture and the Communion Debate. The Iconography of Suggestion / Koenraad Jonckheere; title: Prints as Perfect Means of Communication. Allegorical Prints with Moral and Religious Messages Invented by Willem van Haecht / Yvonne Bleyerveld; title: Visual Pamphleteering and the Invention of its Idiom in Rebellious Antwerp / Catrien Santing; title: Session IV; title: Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Vernacular Cultivation / Todd M. Richardson; title: For the Illustration of Rhetoric. Cornelis van Ghistele, Virgil and the Ideology of Learned Rhetorijcke / Femke Hemelaar; title: Learned Humanist Drama Classicising the Popular / Jan Bloemendal; title: Session V; title: Lady Pictura and Lady Rhetorica in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. Upgrading Painting and Rhetorijcke by Linking Them to the Liberal Arts / Stijn Bussels; title: Mirroring God, Reflecting Man. Shaping Identity Through Knowledge in the Antwerp Plays of 1561 / Jeroen Vandommele; title: Rhetoricians as a Bridge Between Learned and Vernacular Culture / Hilde de Ridder-Symoens; title: Session VI; title: A Pure Marriage Bed. Willem van Haecht's Cephalus and Procris as an Example of Erasmian Marriage / Anke van Herk; title: The Work of a Painter. Willem van Haecht's Apostle Plays, 1563-1565 / Bart Ramakers; title: Rhetoricians and Their Classical and Foreign Contemporary Sources / Samuel Mareel; title: Session VII; title: Tielman Susato's Vaderlandsche Musijcke. Music and the Vernacular / Louis Peter Grijp; title: Willem van Haechts Metrical Psalter. Characteristics and Use / Jan R. Luth; title: Willem van Haecht and Tielman Susato as Innovators of Vernacular Songs / Hubert Meeus.